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Planning the maintenance of IS29500
23 July 08 12:23 PM
I'm in London this week for meetings with SC 34 Ad-Hoc Group 1 (AHG1) and Ecma TC45. I suppose London is an appropriate place for standards bodies to meet, having had a newspaper called the Standard for nearly 200 years. SC 34 AHG1 Meeting The AHG1 meeting Read More...
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Links for 07-15-2008
15 July 08 07:09 PM
Eric White on Linq and Open XML. Eric White has been posting some great code samples lately, including a sample of functional programming with the Open XML SDK , how to transform flat data into a hierarchy with Linq , and a set of blog posts on Writing Read More...
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Open XML links for 06-22-2008
22 June 08 03:32 PM
Here are some interesting blog posts from the last week, as well as a few items I had missed while I was at TechEd but discovered while catching up on my RSS feeds today ... Wouter Van Vugt has an excellent post on "Embedding repeating elements in a schema-mapped Read More...
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Open XML diff tools
18 June 08 08:49 AM
When learning about Open XML or developing Open XML solutions, it's very common to find yourself wondering "what's the difference between these two documents?" For example, you may see something in a document that you'd like to recreate programmatically, Read More...
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Open XML Power Tools
12 June 08 08:40 AM
Hot on the heels of the release of Version 1 of the Open XML SDK earlier this week, Eric White has posted information about a cool project that is built with the SDK: the Open XML Power Tools project. the Open XML Power Tools are a set of PowerShell cmdlets Read More...
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Open XML SDK Version 1 released
10 June 08 06:15 PM
Version 1 of the Open XML SDK is now available for free download from MSDN. Here are the links: Open XML Formats SDK download link: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=120908 Open XML Formats SDK documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb448854.aspx Read More...
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Open XML SDK session at TechEd
04 June 08 01:26 PM
This afternoon at TechEd, Zeyad Rajabi demonstrated some of the ways developers can use the Open XML SDK to read and write Open XML documents. He started with the basics, such as how to create a hello-world document ( as shown on MSDN ), then progressed Read More...
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TechEd Orlando
03 June 08 01:15 PM
If you're at TechEd in Orlando this week, come on by the Open XML booth to get a copy of the recently updated Open XML developer poster (thanks Erika!). I'll be here for TechEd/Developer and TechEd/IT Pro, so hope to see you here. What's new with the Read More...
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Open XML links for 05-19-2008
19 May 08 10:15 AM
Open XML can help you skip school. I've covered in the past how ISVs, corporate developers, information workers, and public-sector decision makers can benefit from Open XML standardization, but my colleague Pranav Wagh has addressed a hitherto-ignored Read More...
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DAISY translator released
09 May 08 10:17 AM
I was traveling on Tuesday/Wednesday this week and wasn't around when the news came out, but the DAISY translator plugin for Word and an update to the DAISY Pipeline were announced on Wednesday. Here are a few places to learn more about how it works and Read More...
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OpenOffice 3.0 beta can read docx/xslx/pptx formats
09 May 08 07:13 AM
The beta code for OpenOffice 3.0 has been released, and it includes Open XML read support: Behind the scenes, OpenOffice.org 3.0 will support the upcoming OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.2 standard, and is capable of opening files created with MS-Office 2007 Read More...
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Open XML links for 05-05-2008
05 May 08 07:40 AM
Library of Congress's standards activity. The Library of Congress has posted an overview of the work they've been doing to support the development of key open standards for digital content, including Office Open XML and PDF/A. I had the pleasure of working Read More...
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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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