RE: [xml-dev] NY Times reference to 'secret coding'

[Len Bullard <len.bullard@uai.com>]

Some places to ask and reference:

http://www.openxmldeveloper.org/
http://www.openxmlcommunity.org/
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/officexml/chapter/ch02.pdf
http://blogs.infosupport.com/wouterv/archive/2007/07/22/Questions-on-Open-XM
L.aspx
http://blogs.balliauw.be/blogs/maarten/archive/2006/12/14/office-2007-spread
sheetml-classes-in-php.aspx
http://blogs.infosupport.com/wouterv/archive/2006/12/10/Package-Explorer-V2.
0.aspx
http://www.codeplex.com/ExcelPackage/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/odf-converter
http://www.docx2doc.com/
http://www.openxml.biz/
http://www.panergy-software.com/buy/download.html
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htm

although the last is the free published standard for reference sake.

I don't disagree that language referencing code bases to which the developer
has no access has no place in the ISO standard.  

len

From: Jonathan Robie [mailto:jonathan.robie@redhat.com] 

Has anybody done a successful, complete implementation of OOXML without 
relying on Microsoft libraries?

I'm not at all expert on these formats, but I think one of the issues 
involves specifying some things in terms of the behavior of Microsoft 
applications, instead of stating behavior in the spec.


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