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Office 2003 XML Integrating Office with the Rest of the World

By Evan Lenz, Mary McRae, Simon St. Laurent
May 2004
Pages: 586
ISBN 10: 0-596-00538-5 | ISBN 13: 9780596005382
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This book explores the relationship between XML and Office 2003, examining how the various products in the Office suite both produce and consume XML. Beginning with an overview of the XML features included in the various Office 2003 components, Office 2003 XML provides quick and clear guidance to anyone who needs to import or export information from Office documents into other systems.
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In Microsoft's Office 2003, users experience the merger of the power of the classic Office suite of applications with the fluidity of data exchange inherent in XML. With XML at its heart, the new version of Microsoft's desktop suite liberates the information stored in millions of documents created with Office software over the past fifteen years, making it available to a wide variety of programs. Office 2003 XML offers an in-depth exploration of the relationship between XML and Office 2003, examining how the various products in the Office suite both produce and consume XML. Developers will learn how they can connect Microsoft Office to others systems, while power users will learn to create and analyze XML documents using familiar Office tools. The book begins with an overview of the XML features included in the various Office 2003 components, and explores in detail how Word, Excel, and Access interact with XML. This book covers both the user interface side, creating interfaces so that users can comfortably (and even unknowingly) work with XML, and the back end, exposing Office information to other processes. It also looks at Microsoft's new InfoPath application and how it fits with the rest of Office. Finally, the book's appendices introduce various XML technologies that may be useful in working with Office, including XSLT, W3C XML Schema, RELAX NG, and SOAP. Office 2003 XML provides quick and clear guidance to a anyone who needs to import or export information from Office documents into other systems. Both XML programmers and Office power will learn how to get the most from this powerful new intersection between Office 2003 and XML.

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Just what I needed,  June 06 2006
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Submitted by Gary Reed   [Respond | View]

I found this book to be well-written. It contains information I had a very difficult time getting on the web in general and specifically on Microsoft's site. It provided exactly what I needed for using schemas with Word. I didn't explore the other areas of Office but as far as Word goes, this book is more than adequate.

The appendixes are very helpful.

Gary Reed


Simon St. Laurent photo author reply,  May 09 2005
Submitted by Simon St. Laurent   [Respond | View]

Covering the SmartDocuments API at a level that "really worked" would have required a full book of its own. We hoped that providing an example with explanations would demonstrate to readers what was functional and non-functional about the interface. The code does work - the complaint about hard-coded paths is reasonable in that it's not great practice, but it's not a case of code that just never worked.

I have heard from a few people that they were happy to read that chapter, as it dissuaded them from spending a lot more time in that overly complex space, but I can see where someone determined to make SmartDocuments work and seeking information would find it unsatisfactory. As the reviewer notes, of course, no one else dared go even this far.

The good news for now seems to be that Microsoft will be replacing SmartDocuments in Visual Studio 2005 with a much friendlier environment for creating interactive Office applications.



Great Topic, Good Material, Terrible Execution,  May 05 2005
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This is the best book I have found on the topic of SmartDocuments. Which is sad to say. I'm amazed at how many errors I have found in this book. But the most appalling thing is hard coded path strings in the sample code. Give me a break! The darn initialize interface gives you the solution path.

My advice, get the book for reference to a very under published topic. But be aware that their are a significant number of mistakes and the samples code is fundamentally flawed.



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