First Encounters With Office Open Xml Matt Turner 12 4 2007

Office Open XML Native format of MS Office 2007 Complete rework of the entire productivity suite Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc. All have native format of XML! OOXML = Office Open XML Standard through Ecma International Formally k F ll known as E Ecma 376 Approved in December 2006 Copyright © 2007 Mark Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Slide 3

Lets Have a Look There is a lot of it . . . A Requirement was 100% compatibility Layout based 6500+ page specification ifi ti Thousands of elements + attributes And speed and space Single-character QNames Single character Single-character namespace prefixes No spare whitespace But the core element set is manageable . . . . . . for simple documents ☺ Copyright © 2007 Mark Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Slide 4

It’s Not XML, It’s Zipped XML Zipped container with content, formatting info and manifest Payload varies by application but its all XML New extension: .docx, pptx .xlsx docx pptx, xlsx Copyright © 2007 Mark Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Slide 5

Runs Present Some Issues The core of a Word file comprises text “runs” New styles require new runs sometimes they just show up runs, Sometimes split text (!!) Needs some special handling which we can do with XQuery Copyright © 2007 Mark Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Slide 7

Hooks to Add Structure Spec allows for customXml tag that you can use to add structure Word also support to let you add structure Support for schemas to control editing Controls to let you add arbitrary tags And flow content from external (XML) sources Available from the Developer Tab Enable developer tab from word options under the ‘big button’ Word itself can be configured with XML to jump start custom editing and XML interactions Copyright © 2007 Mark Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Slide 8

What can we do with it? It’s XML – anything!! You Y can query it transform it . . . the whole enchilada. it, t f th hl hil d Create it MS Word is now (just) an OOXML editor ( ) (j ) (!!) There are lots of other ways to edit and create OOXML Make the desktop connection Drive application context direct from end-user documents Output \"first-draft\" of end-user documents that work on (real) desktops Create content apps that work directly on collections of Office documents, without conversion Simplify the XML-ifying of business processes XML ifying Copyright © 2007 Mark Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Slide 10

XQuery Makes It Happen XQuery - much more than a query language W3C standard Query, manipulate and render XML XML Content Servers (like MarkLogic Server) Application ready extensions provide complete platform for content applications Such as Update features to load / maintain content HTTP / REST interfaces Zip tools to h dl the Zi t l t handle th packaging* ki* *MarkLogic Server only Copyright © 2007 Mark Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Slide 11

Examples 1. Exploring Office Open XML p g p • Open up .zip package • Update XML • Repackage • Load into Content Server • Create CustomXml + Controls • Query and Update • Repackage into .docx Copyright © 2007 Mark Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Slide 13

Content Server Examples Office Open XML = accessible format gives you the building blocks to create purpose built applications to leverage desktop apps Content Servers put it together MarkLogic Server combines the XML tools (XQuery) to process it and the extension to seamlessly round trip content Copyright © 2007 Mark Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Slide 19

Content Server Examples Generate, Query and Mash-up MS Word 1. Use XQuery to transform XML into Office Open XML 2. Use XQuery t access granular content elements in 2 U XQ to l t tl ti word documents and create new Office Open XML 3. Customize Word Ribbons to query MarkLogic Server to get content and save new content back Copyright © 2007 Mark Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Slide 20

Content Server Example 3 Add content using custom Mark Logic Ribbon Insert new content into Shakespeare play Query MarkLogic Server for content from tech support content base Copyright © 2007 Mark Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Slide 25

Content Server Example 3 Add content using custom Mark Logic Ribbon Insert new content into Shakespeare play Query MarkLogic Server for content from tech support content base Insert content into play Actions contained in MarkLogic Ribbon Copyright © 2007 Mark Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Slide 26

Content Server Example 3 Save content back to contentbase Select any content Create a new document with the snippet in MarkLogic Server contentbase Copyright © 2007 Mark Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Slide 27

Conclusions Office 2007’s native file format is XML! For real! XQuery provides powerful tools to ingest, query, manipulate and g p generate the format ( XML after all) (it’s ) OOXML provides the building blocks for integrated content apps based on desktop content XML Content Servers enable these applications so . . . Copyright © 2007 Mark Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Slide 29

Content Application Resources OOXML Standard http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htm Small changes – featuring OOXML http://developer.marklogic.com/columns/smallchanges OOXML Developers http://openxmldeveloper.org/ Discovering XQuery (my blog) http://xquery.typepad.com p q y yp p MarkMail (XML Lists) http://markmail.org Mark Logic CEO Blog http://marklogic.blogspot.com XQuery site / developers group htt // http://x-query.com Querying XML (book) Melton and Buxton Copyright © 2007 Mark Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Slide 30

Unlock Content™ Thank You Sample Template Matt Turner Principal Consultant What do we think of this matt.turner@marklogic.com Sfdhskdfjh kjsfhd http://xquery.typepad.com Sdflkhsdf sdflk Copyright © 2007 Mark Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Slide 31

First Encounters With Office Open Xml Matt Turner 12 4 2007

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