The Open XML SDK has been available since 2007, and "provides developers with a set of strongly typed classes that make it easy to read, write and manipulate the parts and content in an Open XML ...

Microsoft has posted a message to its Mactopia site making two announcements: the Open XML File Format Converter Update to Office 2004 for Mac will be delayed until June (the second major delay ...

XML, or Extensible Markup Language, is an open document standard for structured content, created by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for use on the Web, vendor-neutral data interchange, media ...

HOME blogs op ed unblog 174915192 Ecma Says Yeah To Microsoft Open Office XML News Ecma Says Yeah To Microsoft Open Office XML By Barbara Darrow December 11, 2005, 11:04 AM EST ...

This is what a free, open source tool called BaseX does. BaseX “is a scalable and high-performance, yet very light-weight XML Database engine and XPath/XQuery Processor, supporting the latest ...

Pointing out that the specifications for Open XML run to 6,000 pages, he suggested that a fast-track would be inappropriate as there were "a lot of concerns about what might be in there", such as ...

A US standards body has rejected Microsoft's Office Open XML document format as an international standard, which could further boost the popularity of open source standard OpenDocument (ODF) ...

MacFixIt reader continue to report failed conversions. Charles Frean writes: "I downloaded the latest 0.1.1 (Beta) version of the MS Office Open XML Converter and it installed perfectly.

The ISO vote to approve Open XML as an international standard is only the first step in a long implementation process, say both critics and supporters of the file format.

Microsoft Corp.'s Office Open XML file format won approval from the Ecma International standards body yesterday, giving it needed credibility as a rival to the OpenDocument format. But Ecma's vote ...