April 2008 - Posts

ODF conformance tests
30 April 08 03:39 PM

Spring is in the air, and many a young man's thoughts turn to the matter of ODF compliance. Well, perhaps not many, but at least two ... Jesper Lund Stocholm has posted the results of some tests that he participated in last fall, working with vendors Read More...

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Altova upgrades tools for Open XML developers
29 April 08 06:01 PM

Altova has announced an upgrade to the Altova MissionKit bundle with several changes of interest to Open XML developers, including improved SpreadsheetML support in MapForce , larger files supported by XMLSpy, DOCX support in StyleVision , and differencing Read More...

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Open XML links for 04-28-2008
28 April 08 11:01 AM

Open XML SDK Class Diagram Explorer. Erika Ehrli has created a reference for Open XML developers that is also a great demo of the types of user interfaces that Silverlight enables. The Open XML FormatSDK Class Diagram Explorer uses Deep Zoom to enable Read More...

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M1 Beta CTP of binary translator project
24 April 08 02:52 PM

The binary translator project has reached its first milestone: release of a CTP (Community Technology Preview) of the project. You can download it from the project's download page . There you'll find download links for the executable (doc2x.exe), complete Read More...

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Alex Brown's research, AbiWord enhancements
21 April 08 07:11 PM

In a recent blog post, Alex Brown looks at how well Office 2007 supports Open XML . As he explains, I was excited to receive from Murata Makoto a set of the RELAX NG schemas for the (post-BRM) revision of OOXML, and thought it would be interesting to Read More...

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Open XML SDK
18 April 08 09:42 AM

The April CTP version is now available, and Erika Ehrli has all the details. Read More...

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Open XML links for 04-17-2008
17 April 08 08:02 AM

Like a few other people, I've been taking a break from blogging since the Open XML vote was final, to deal with an overflowing email inbox and a few other things. Here are some posts that I've found interesting in the last couple of weeks: SC34 plenary. Read More...

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IS29500
01 April 08 11:58 AM

The national bodies have been notified of the results of the ISO/IEC process, and the outcome is now known: Open XML has been approved as an ISO/IEC standard. Here are links to all of the details: Brian Jones: Open XML Overwhelmingly Approved as an ISO Read More...

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