I was cleaning up my backyard and found this control I never finished. So I did. Here is Word 2003 XML Viewer Control v1.0 just in case somebody needs it. It's is ASP.NET 2.0 Web server control, which allows to display arbitrary Microsoft Word 2003 XML documents (aka WordML ...
openxml.biz announced the availability of the OpenXML Writer - open source text editor for creating OpenXML WordprocessingML files (.docx). Supported features include "text formatting options like bold, italic, underline, font color, font name , font size, paragraph justification and text indentation. Basic editing functions like cutting, copying, pasting and spell ...
Today's news from Adobe: SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jan. 29, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that it intends to release the full Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.7 specification to AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association, for the purpose of publication by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO ...
While OOXML/ODF war starts to heat up, Microsoft published new version of their another document format "Word 2007: Rich Text Format (RTF) Specification, version 1.9": The Rich Text Format (RTF) Specification provides a format for text and graphics interchange that can be used with different output devices, operating environments, and ...
And going on with Word as XSL-FO editor theme - take a look at a brand new tool called foActive <X>Styler: foActive <X>Styler is a plug-in for Microsoft Word 2003 Professional which allows a user to design and test dynamic document templates right from within the Word authoring environment. <X>Styler ...
Via Brian Jones we learn that the Ecma International Technical Committee (TC45) has published draft version 1.3 of the Ecma Office Open XML File Formats Standard. This is 4000 pages document specifying new (alternative to Oasis OpenOffice/OpenDocument XML format) Office XML format to be used by Microsoft starting with Office ...
Here is one easy way: Go to xmllab.net, get free eXml Web server control and modified Microsoft's WordML2HTML XSLT stylesheet, version 1.3. Drop eXml control onto a Web form, assign DocumentSource property (WordML document you want to render), TransformSource property(wordml2html-.NET-script.xslt): Create new folder to store external images In code behind ...
Almost 2 years ago I published a post "Transforming WordML to HTML: Support for Images" showing how to hack Microsoft WordML2HTML stylesheet to support images. People kept telling me it doesn't support some weird image formats or header images. Moreover I realized it has a bug and didn't work with ...
The big news today is of course announced next Office's full deep XML-ization. I've read a dozen of enthusiastic postings already and decided not to bother my readers with another whoohoo-like post from another XML nerd. But what amazed me more than the announce itself (which was predictable) is the ...
Altsoft N.V. has announced a relase of the Xml2PDF formatting engine version 2.3, now supporting WordML. Altsoft Xml2PDF is a .NET based formatting engine for converting various XML-based formats to PDF. It supports XSL-FO, SVG, XHTML, WordML and XML+XSLT as an input and generates PDF as an output. The prices ...
Dino Chiesa of Microsoft shows how to generate dynamically WordML documents using Java and XSLT. Yep, that's not a typo, Microsoft, WordML and Java. XML serves as peacemaker again. And he even provides a working JSP demo. Cool. ...
As Evan Lenz pointed out, O'Reilly put Chapter 2 ("The WordprocessingML Vocabulary") of the "Office 2003 XML" book online. Here it is (88 pages pdf). Excellent introduction to WordML. Those who want to learn WordML - go read it (or buy the book). ...
Well, I'm probably the last one on this, but anyway: Microsoft released new pack of Office XML schemas and related documentation. What's included? WordprocessingML (Word), SpreadsheetML (Excel), FormTemplate XML (InfoPath) and (new!) DataDiagramingML (Visio) XSD schemas, overviews and other reference docs. Good one. Installed. ...
Hey, look at this cool stuff: On to something more pleasant: Microsoft is continuing to advance on the openness front. There are all those weblogs that I've mentioned a time or six, there's the open-source release of the WiX installer tools (http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix/) and now (as of today, in fact) there's ...
I've been told privately this book is going to be totally a killer: "Office 2003 XML: Integrating Office with the Rest of the World" by Evan Lenz, Mary McRae, and Simon St. Laurent This book explores the relationship between XML and Office 2003, examining how the various products in the ...
Microsoft has released another WordML to HTML transfromer - Word 2003 XML Viewer (thanks to Sal for pointing that). As I expected due to images issue it won't be single XSLT stylesheet such one as was released for Word 2003 Beta 2. This time it's complete viewer application, not just ...
Update: this post is outdated, see "WordML2HTML with support for images stylesheet updated" for updates. Here is a new version of WordML2HTML XSLT stylesheet, developed by Microsoft for Word 2003 Beta2 and adapted by me to Word 2003 RTM. I called this version "1.1-.NET-script". Here is why. Along with some ...
One of consequences of the revolutionary XML support in Microsoft Office 2003 is a possibility to unlock information in the Microsoft Office System using XML. Most likely that was deliberate decision to open Office doors for XML technology and I'm sure that's winning strategy. Talking about transforming WordprocessingML (WordML) to ...
Looks like everyone but I knows it. I stumbled at Mike Gunderloy's "Working with Microsoft Office 2003 Documents and Web Services" article at OfficeZealot.com illustrating how to use INCLUDETEXT field in Word 2003. Very nice feature! Here is how it looks like for XML nerd, newbie in Word. INCLUDETEXT field ...
Priscilla Walmsley, author of great "Definitive XML Schema" announced a new book, now about XML in Office 2003: I'm pleased to announce the release of XML in Office 2003: Information Sharing with Desktop XML, a book that I co-authored with Charles Goldfarb. It can be found on Amazon at: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/013142193X/priscillawalm-20 ...
Don Box talks about his weekend hobby - getting XHTML+CSS from WordML. Using XSLT of course. And it works - Don bloggs in Word, publishing in XHTML. Resulting HTML is not optimal yet (see page source), but perfectly proves the concept. Well, as per Don WordML and XHTML are twins ...
I'm writing this entry to illustrate basics of generating lists in WordprocessingML documents using XSLT. Also I want to test how my office-related rants are syndicated by the wonderful OfficeZealot.com site. [Prerequisites: Make sure you've read what "Overview of WordprocessingML" says about lists]. Basically a list in WordprocessingML consists of ...
Well, here is a small basic example how to generate WordprocessingML documents basing on templates. Saying "template" I don't mean regular *.dot Word templates, but just WordprocessingML XML document with predefined document/paragraph/run level properties and styles. Having such template document basically all needs to be done is to fill it ...
Just discovered that WordML to XSL-FO stylesheet does exist already. Well, I was talking about it since May, so no surprise somebody more effective than me just made it done. It's Antenna House guys, developers of the best XSL-FO formatter in the market. Check out this page. Sounds reasonable, they ...
Well, seems like images are one of the WordprocessingML trickiest parts, at least for me. Here are humble results of my investigations and experiments in embedding images into XSLT-generated WordprocessingML documents. Images in WordprocessingML are represented by w:pict element, which holds both VML and binary data (obviously Base64 encoded). VML ...
Microsoft Announces Availability of Open and Royalty-Free License For Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas :To ensure broad availability and access, Microsoft is offering the royalty-free license using XML Schema Definitions (XSDs), the cross-industry standard developed by the W3C. The license provides access to the schemas and full documentation to interested ...
The world is getting better. And the Word too! Word 2003 Beta2 now understands not only those *.doc files, but XML also. It's all as it should be in open XML world (what makes some people suspicious): there is WordML vocabulary, its schema (well documented one, btw) is available as ...
Everyone seems to be talking about WordML these days and it sounds really intriguing. Dare has posted a link to the Microsoft Word XML Content Development Kit Beta 2, which contains WordML XML schema. Don Box is transforming WordML to RSS20+XHTML and says it's easier than transfroming HTML+CSS due ...