How to Format XML Files in C. With the proliferation of information on the Web, the need for standardization of content semantics became desirable. Readers who wanted content delivered in ...

However doing so – especially with complex document-oriented information – requires something more than just slapping an XML label on the file format.

Using XML and Zip is not a unique approach, however, given that open-source Office competitor OpenOffice (sponsored by Sun) has been using an XML-based file format and Zip compression to store files.

The first draft of the Office Open XML file format specification, which Microsoft submitted to standards body Ecma International in November 2005, has been published.

The open-source office productivity developer accuses Microsoft of making its Office XML file format "artificially complex" and acts as a "lock-in strategy." ...

The company proposes to work with other industry leaders on an Ecma International open technical committee to create an open foundation for innovation with documents by standardizing Office Open XML, ...

XML-based file formats in the offing for its Excel, PowerPoint and Word applications are expected to free up data and improve security.

In the middle part of this decade, Microsoft engaged in an extensive effort to create open standards derived from its own XML-based file formats, such as XPS and Office XML. This work was widely ...

Last week, just before the Thanksgiving holiday got underway in the US, Larry Rosen, the attorney that wrote the book on open source licensing If the Microsoft news wins Google over to the company ...

ReportMill Software Inc. announced on Wednesday that ReportMill 7, its Java reporting tool, is now available. The new version features a new, simpler XML file format, native Microsoft Excel file ...