September, 2011

A question was recently posed to me - what is the best way to look at markup and the rendering of the markup simultaneously. This is important, for instance, when you are experimenting with markup and determining the exact markup that you want to generate...

The default approach to working with DocumentBuilder 2.0 enables you to take bits and pieces of multiple documents and assemble them together into a new document. However, there is an interesting scenario that this approach does not handle. You may want...

Three years ago Peter O'Kelly wrote a paper titled, "What?s Up, .DOC? Open XML Formats, OpenDocument Format, and the Revolutionary Implications of XML in Productivity Applications." This paper was an industry debate about the relative merits of Open XML Formats and OpenDocument Format and the significance of the productivity application market shift from binary and proprietary file formats to vendor- and product-independent XML models. In the paper he makes a number of projections about the market. Three years later he returns to analyze his predictions and the current market. ...

In a previous screen-cast , I showed how to retrieve the text of an OpenXML WordprocessingML document. In this post and screen-cast, I introduce some code that enables you to replace the text of a bookmark. This blog post and screen-cast build on the...

Sometimes developers use bookmarks to delineate text in an OpenXML WordprocessingML document. Then, as part of a larger system, they want to retrieve the text of that bookmark to process in some fashion. Retrieving the text of bookmarks is made somewhat...