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And there's more!

Yesterday I noted that the Office Binary <-> OpenXML translator project had started on SourceForge. Brian Jones has now also blogged about this but adds some really interesting extra details.

1. Ecma "will modify DIS 29500 to include an informative reference to the SourceForge project."

2. Another great surprise in all of this is that we've made the documentation for a few other supporting technologies available as it may be of use to folks implementing the binary formats: http://www.microsoft.com/interop/docs/supportingtechnologies.mspx

The technologies included are:

  • Windows Compound Binary File Format Specification PDF | XPS
  • Windows Metafile Format (.wmf) Specification PDF | XPS
  • Ink Serialized Format (ISF) Specification PDF | XPS

These technologies are also all available under the Open Specification Promise.

I know several people who will be really pleased by these announcements - excellent news!

Posted: Feb 16 2008, 09:19 AM by Stephen McGibbon | with 3 comment(s)
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Comments

hAl said:

Nice adding some more technologies to the OSP. Strangely enough though we are still waiting for the HD Photo / JPEG XR format to be added to the OSP which Micrsoft promised almost a year ago.
# February 16, 2008 9:33 AM

Andre said:

Sorry Stephen, formally they can't. ISO DIS 29500 is not edited by ECMA. Only the ISO/IEC BRM could apply these changes. And ECMA's submissions deadline has passed.
# February 16, 2008 11:20 AM

Stephen McGibbon said:

Sorry Andre but you're not keeping up Wink. This was actually included in Ecma's disposition of comments responses to NSBs as I pointed out here and as Brian discusses here.

# February 16, 2008 11:55 AM