Comments

# Jesper Lund Stocholm said on February 14, 2008 2:16 AM:

Interestingly this is the component Buzzword (http://www.buzzword.com) uses to save the online documents as OOXML-files.

Btw - someone should have told them (Aspose) that you don't have to name the embedded document folder in the OPC-package "word". It could - and imo should - be "buzzword" or something else.

:-)

# dmahugh said on February 14, 2008 10:06 AM:

Yeah, I agree.  The real test, though, is whether they can read documents that use other physical structures, like these: http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/archive/2007/09/11/open-xml-implementation-test-documents.aspx

# Jesper Lund Stocholm said on February 15, 2008 4:24 AM:

Yes

... and some one should tell IBM to fix their PHP-script at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0705gruber/ as well

while ($zip_entry = zip_read($zip))

{

 if (zip_entry_open($zip, $zip_entry, "r") &

     zip_entry_name($zip_entry) == 'word/document.xml' )

 {

 ...

:-)

# Roman Korchagin said on February 15, 2008 7:23 AM:

Doug,

Thanks for mentioning Aspose.Words.

Aspose.Words certainly passes your test. I would say it is too easy. AW surely follows relationships and content types as per the OPC spec.

       /// <summary>

       /// A test for:

       /// http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/archive/2007/09/11/open-xml-implementation-test-documents.aspx

       /// </summary>

       [Test]

       public void TestRelationshipsConformance()

       {

           Document doc = TestUtil.Open(@"ImportDocx\TestRelationshipsConformance.docx");

           Assert.AreEqual(doc.GetText(), "Hello World!\x000c");

       }

As far as writing goes, we just try to mimic exactly what MS Word writes as much as we can hence the "word/" etc folders. Makes testing a bit easier.

# dmahugh said on February 15, 2008 10:24 AM:

Great to hear, Roman.  And I understand the decision to mimic Word's folder structure for testing purposes -- a few other people are doing the same thing for the same reason, and as long as you follow relationships per the OPC then that works fine.  Your approach is interoperable with any Open XML implementation, as you know.

In the case of IBM's implementation, as Jesper points out they've hard-coded the Word implementation details into their code, instead of writing to the spec, so IBM's code isn't interoperable with other implementations.

# Dating said on May 31, 2008 2:57 PM:

Sydney's Aspose Pty Ltd , a developer/publisher of developer components for the .NET and Java platforms, has just released Aspose.Words for .NET 5.0.0 , which includes support for reading and writing Open XML word-processing documents. An eval versio

# Weddings said on June 5, 2008 5:40 PM:

Sydney's Aspose Pty Ltd , a developer/publisher of developer components for the .NET and Java platforms, has just released Aspose.Words for .NET 5.0.0 , which includes support for reading and writing Open XML word-processing documents. An eval versio

New Comments to this post are disabled