Geneva, 7 December 2006. It's official! Office Open XML is now an Ecma standard (Ecma 376). At their meeting earlier today, the General Assembly approved the standard and also approved submitting the standard for adoption under the ISO/IEC JTC 1 process...

By Muthu Kumar Arjunan of Sonata Software Ltd. This article explains how to “Page” an HTML table generated from Spreadsheet ML document, using XSL transformation & XMLHttp & Java Script by Muthu Kumar Arjunan of Sonata Software Ltd. ...

Wouter Van Vugt has uploaded the latest version of Package Explorer to Codeplex. It has full editing of parts, validation against the final Ecma schemas, and several other new features, all integrated into a VS-style interface with dockable panes and...

Maarten Balliauw has created a set of PHP classes for creating SpreadsheetML documents. They're available under a GPL license from Maarten's blog . He has implemented the basic concepts of writing cell values and formulas and storing the result in an...

Using the Packaging API and Office Open XML to create Excel 2007 files on the server by Dr. John Tunnicliffe Introduction The adoption of XML as the native file format for Excel 2007 has opened up a whole host of new possibilities. Now for the first time...

Rob Helm of Directions on Microsoft has published a report that summarizes some of the benefits of Open XML for users and developers. Here's a link to the full text of Rob's report.

If you're working on Open XML solutions that use Word 2007 content controls and bind them to nodes in your custom XML data part, then you need this tool. It provides a simple graphical view of the content controls and custom XML nodes in a document, and...

Trondheim, Norway, 09/28/06. At the latest meeting of the Ecma TC45 technical committee , the final draft of the Office Open XML specification was approved as ready for submission to the Ecma General Assembly. The General Assembly will review the spec...

reads the data from table in database and displays it in a single sheet in spread sheet, using .NET 3.0 System.IO.Packaging API....

Per Brian Jones , the XSDs are now available from Ecma for working draft 1.4 of the Office Open XML Formats spec. You can download a ZIP file here , which contains all of them in one package.

Ecma International has published a whitepaper that explains the basics of Office Open XML as well as some of the thinking behind the format. It's a great overview for those who are new to the Open XML file formats. Brian Jones's blog has some additional...

November 8, 2006 -- the .NET 3.0 framework redistributable has been released by Microsoft, and you can download it here . This means it's now possible to distribute your applications that use the new System.IO.Packaging API to read and write Open XML...

Article submitted by: Stéphane Rodriguez This article is a tutorial for working with parts as defined by the Open Packaging Conventions (part 2 in particular). The intention is not to provide the reader with plug-and-play code, but instead to provide...

November 10, 2006. Several sessions on Open XML development were presentated at the Microsoft TechEd conference in Barcelona this week. The photo here shows Peter Koen's Thursday session on Open XML architecture. This week's announcements of the 2007...

****UPDATED 12 JUNE 2009**** The Ecma TC45 technical committee has shared some presentations with us that cover the basics of PresentationML. PresentationML is an area that very few people have delved into yet, as opposed to WordprocessingML and SpreadsheetML...