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Subject: Office 2003 XML and OpenOffice XML
Team,
These products are now supporting the functionality
that allows the business
user to create documents that can direct downstream
systems.
I'm sure we'll get more into this as our template
models mature.
Thanks, DW
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XML in Microsoft Office Word 2003 Aaron Skonnard, MSDN Magazine Microsoft Office Word 2003 introduces the 'Save as XML' command that produces WordML documents. Later, when you double-click on an XML document produced by Word, the Windows loader automatically associates the file with Word. WordML is powerful and flexible enough to capture all of the rich editing and formatting of a Word document with full round-tripping. The introduction of WordML is probably the most significant change in Microsoft Office Word 2003, but it's definitely not the only one. Developers can also attach custom XML Schema definitions and XSLT transformations to Word documents. Developers can mark up content with elements from the attached schemas, making it possible to inject meaningful business-specific markup that simplifies processing down the road. When you save a document in Word, it can validate the document against the attached schema and apply a custom XSLT transformation during the process. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/11/XMLFiles/default.aspx ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OpenOffice.org XML Essentials: Using OpenOffice.org's XML Data Format J. David Eisenberg, O'Reilly & Associates The author provides draft content submitted to an open review process, published under a Creative Commons License. OpenOffice.org has as its mission "to create, as a community, the leading international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format." The OpenOffice.org file format is not simply an XML wrapper for a binary format, nor a one-to-one correspondence between the XML tags and the internal data structures. Instead, it is an idealized representation of the structure. This allows future versions of OpenOffice.org to implement new features or completely alter internal data structures without requiring major changes to the file format. Although the XML file format is human-readable, it is fairly verbose. To save space, OpenOffice.org files are stored in JAR (Java Archive) format. A JAR file is a compressed ZIP file that has an additional manifest file that lists the contents of the archive. If you, as a human, want to read the XML directly, you can unpack an OpenOffice.org file with any ZIP tool. http://books.evc-cit.info/ See also the Creative Commons Project: http://xml.coverpages.org/creativeCommons.html |
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