The Open XML Power Tools, an open source project on Codeplex to create PowerShell cmdlets for automating Open XML document management tasks, has been released on Codeplex at http://www.codeplex.com/PowerTools. Non-developers can use these cmdlets to build ... [Read More]

Microsoft unveiled today the roadmap for the Open XML SDK that was released last June as a CTP (Community Technology Preview) version. After collecting developer feedback through the CTP release, they've put together a two-phased release plan to get developers ... [Read More]

Accessibility experts reviewed Ecma-376 Open XML (DIS29500) and created Accessibility Guidelines that must be followed to ensure that Open XML implementations are accessible.  This is a working draft and the authors welcome additional feedback and ... [Read More]

Microsoft has announced the next Office Developer Conference, to be held February 10-13, 2008, in San Jose, California. This event covers Microsoft Office System technologies from a developer perspective, and will include a variety of sessions and ... [Read More]

Open XML Formats support accessibility in a number of ways. In explaining this support to its customers, partners and assistive technology vendors, Microsoft has created a preliminary draft report describing how Open XML compares to W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and W3C XML Accessibility guidelines. ... [Read More]

Altova has announced Open XML support for their flagship product, XMLSpy. As covered in their announcement this week, XMLSpy 2007 Release 3 provides full validation of Open XML documents, intelligent entry helpers, and support for the development of XSLT ... [Read More]

Several of the most active contributors to OpenXmlDeveloper were in Redmond last week for the MVP Summit and an Open XML workshop, so Doug Mahugh interviewed them on some Open XML development topics. The videos are up on Channel 9 at the links included ... [Read More]

Mohammad Nour El-din Marwan of Cairo University's Computer Engineering Department has posted a detailed how-to article that covers the design of a set of classes for working with Open XML documents. His approach reflects a common business need: set up ... [Read More]