Office 2003 XML and OpenOffice XML

["David RR Webber" <david@drrw.info>]

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

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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