At Tech Ed, there was TONS of enthusiasm about WordProcessingML. Brian Jones, Office XML mastermind, was at the show too, and that was a huge plus. BTW: I have dubbed him the Russell Crowe of Office programmability, not because he does things of questionable legality but he's built like him, and he doesn't seem to like shaving. Anyway, my session on WordML was a huge hit, and the attendees once again made it really fun to do. What made Tech Ed even more special was the announcement about the new XML file format in Office 12 which has had great press coverage.

Now, all of this is great- but you need some tools. Here's one I simply cannot live without: XPath Builder. Amazingly, it's free (for now). I'm guessing that Marek Levy's strategy is to build a huge following with a straight-forward app and then do a major revision with loads more features for a fee. It's a path many others have followed with great success. Let's go.

Give it a whirl.

BTW: you want to know what happens to Microsoft employees at Tech Ed that have, shall we say, had a little to much fun? This was pretty good:

http://blogs.msdn.com/mikehall/archive/2005/06/10/427773.aspx

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