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More tools that work on top of Word XML

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There is a company called CambridgeDocs that has built a tool that will transform from WordML into XSL-FO. Here's a link to their site: https://www.cambridgedocs.com/products_wordml2FO.htm

This is just another example of a group that has leveraged the XML support in Office 2003 to build a tool to solve specific customer needs. As I've said numerous times, one of the big benefits we see with our XML fomats is that partners and other 3rd parties can now come along and build targeted solutions on top of Office. Here's a diagram from their site:

There definitely is a demand out there for tranforming WordML into XSL-FO, it just isn't a big enough demand for us to build directly into the product. Instead, as is often the case, we rely on 3rd parties to build these types of solutions, and by moving to a default open XML format, we make it that much easier for people to do just that. Remember if only 1% of our customers are in need of a specific feature, that's at least 4 million potential customers for a 3rd party to sell to.

I'm hoping to keep this blog moving forward with more and more information about how you can use the formats and help anyone that's interested in building a solution. The "Intro to Word/Excel XML" posts I made over the past few months are great starting points...

-Brian

Comments

  • Anonymous
    October 21, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    October 24, 2005
    Anon: after all the other nonsense and spurious objections to these XML foirmats for Office 12, I'm not surprised at yet another diatribe based on exactly nothing.
    Get real!

    Brian Jones; I'm amazed at your patience and good humour. Most of the consistent misery-merchants that post comments here don't deserve the time of day! They're taking any and every opportunity to declare anything Microsoft as some sort of a con or a conspiracy. I'd bet they've never contributed anything worthwhile to the world, let alone to software development.
  • Anonymous
    October 24, 2005

    ILT, I am not attacking anybody. I am attacking the company strategy because I think it is hiding a lot that matter to everyday users.

    I come with arguments and factd.

    Your personal attacks, associated to lack of any argument or fact, only tell that you are a troll. Go get a life.
  • Anonymous
    October 25, 2005
    Anon... for my uses, I don't care how complex the schema is. If I can extract the content I want from an OfficeXML file, which in my case is usually the text or the headings, then there's not a problem for me.

    There's a big difference between getting what you need from a complex XML file and getting everything. You probably don't need more than a few days to work up an XSLT to get the pieces you want in the format you want. Just let your default template drop the rest on the floor.