A Quick Tour of Ecma Open XML Formats

COMPATIBILITY WITH EXISTING DOCUMENTS

Binaryformat

Ecma Open XMLformat

Binaryformat

Ecma Open XMLformat

THEY LOOK IDENTICAL, BUT …

Binaryformat

Ecma Open XMLformat

On this document Open XML is half the size of the binary file

Ecma Open XMLis a ZIP file …

That contains XML parts

Images stored in native format

(JPEG, PNG, GIF, …)

WHAT ELSE CAN OPEN XML DO?

Accessibility?

Alternative Textfor non-text element

Builds on existing

standards like Dublin Core

INTEGRATION WITH BUSINESS SYSTEMS (CUSTOM XML)

Business transaction document. How is this data

stored in Open XML?

In a “Custom XML” part

The structure (schema) can be optimized for your

business process

Update a field in the

document

The structure (schema) can be optimized for my

business processUpdates

custom XML element

GETTING STARTED WITH WORDPROCESSING DOCUMENTS

A simple document

Has simple markup

Adding a paragraph

Is easy

Format using “run”

properties(“i” for italics)

Presto!

GETTING STARTED WITH SPREADSHEET DOCUMENTS

Workbook, worksheets

Rows and cells

Workbook

Worksheets

Rows and cells

Add a cell

Presto!

Formulas?

Got them!