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ALTOVA’s XMLSpy is now supporting working with Open XML Formats

“XMLSpy allows you to extract, edit, transform, and process the XML data stored in Office 2007 files (as well as any other zipped archive). These capabilities allow developers to work with the vast amount of data stored as XML in Word 2007 and Excel 2007 documents with full validation, intelligent entry helpers, and other useful features, and develop XSLT and XQuery transformations to publish the data or utilize it in other applications.”

ScreenShots of application:

Apart from intelligent editing feature it has functionality to add/delete document directly in the zip document. This is really cool.

Download the free version of XMLSpy

With the launch of office 2007 Microsoft has introduced a new format for office
files. Microsoft office 2007 system use XML based file format. In office 2007
doc file is docx file and ppt and xls files are pptx and xlsx files
respectively. These files are based on Office Open XML format. New file formats
are zipped packages where settings, style, format and content is in xml format
inside. The most important feature of this format is interoperability. Now any application
that supports XML can work with the data in new file format. The development of
office documents like power point presentation would be easier on the server
side without any office component or software installation. You even don’t need
to install office 2007 on a web server to create these documents.

Well, the thing is that We need to create a solution for our
client where we need to generate the PPTs and XlSs files on the fly. We have
decided to use this new file format for this task. As this is new thing around,
so there is not much help available on the net. So I am much like eating the Microsoft’s document on the subject.

http://www.microsoft.com/india/events/devvista/