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Microsoft XML Architect and Co-Creator of W3C's XML 1.0 Standard To Unveil XML Vision for "Office 11
XML Visionary Will Put the Microsoft "Office 11" XML Pieces
Together for Attendees at XML Conference & Exposition
REDMOND, Wash. -- Nov. 14, 2002 -- Jean Paoli, Microsoft XML
architect and co-creator of the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C)
XML 1.0 standard, will be a featured speaker at the IDEAlliance XML
Conference & Exposition 2002 in Baltimore next month. Sponsored in
part by Microsoft Corp., the conference is the world's largest exposition
on XML-based software and services. Paoli's presentation, titled
"Bringing the XML vision to the desktop with 'Office 11,'" will detail
Microsoft's vision for XML and provide attendees with a first look at the
technical architecture in the next version of Microsoft® Office,
code-named "Office 11." The presentation will take place at 4:45 p.m.
EST (1:45 p.m. PST) Wednesday, Dec. 11, at the Baltimore Convention
Center.
Paoli's presentation will focus on four key areas surrounding XML:
The original vision of XML and the importance of enabling users
to apply customer-defined schemas to their documents
The substantial investment Microsoft has made in "Office 11" to
bring the XML vision to the desktop
The technical architecture adopted to enable Microsoft Word,
Excel, XDocs, the FrontPage® Web site creation and
management tool, and Access to support documents utilizing
customer-defined schemas
How the paradigm for the Office family of applications has
evolved to enable customers to use the data defined by their own
schemas, enabling better integration with XML Web services
"Jean Paoli was one of the key people creating XML and has been a
great evangelist for the power of XML," said Lauren Wood, chair of the
IDEAlliance XML Conference & Exposition 2002. "XML support in
Microsoft Office is a significant event for anyone using XML, and a
significant accomplishment. Jean's presentation at XML 2002 is sure to
be well-attended, as is the Microsoft booth."
Customer-Defined XML Schemas
Microsoft customers have expressed the need to capture important
business information in a way that it can be reused at a later time in other
documents or business processes, regardless of servers, applications or
platforms. Based on this feedback, Microsoft has invested heavily in
building XML into the heart of Office applications. This allows data to be
separated from the way it is presented and shared across applications
and processes as needed, rather than locked in specific documents.
Because Microsoft recognizes the value of standards-based XML in
enabling this functionality, it has built rich support for XML into "Office
11."
"Office 11" goes well beyond allowing users to save documents in the
XML format. It is the first productivity suite to provide support for
customer-defined XML Schema Definitions (XSDs), meaning customers
can structure their data in a way that makes the most sense for their
business needs. As a result, companies can create customized Office
solutions in documents that interact richly with other valuable
XML-based Web services. This means information workers will be more
effectively connected to the data and business processes they depend on
to do their jobs well.
Applications Optimized for Specific Uses
With tight XML integration throughout the "Office 11" family of
applications, customers have a number of options and can choose the
application that is best optimized for their task at hand. The applications
include the following:
Word. Customers can use Microsoft Word to create long
documents with large areas of text and extensive formatting, such
as a customer letter or marketing plan. Word will allow documents
to be saved in XML or will support the creation of templates
based on customer-defined schemas.
Excel. Microsoft recommends that customers use Excel when
analyzing data or inputting information that would be best
represented in grid or tabular format. Data within any
customer-defined XML schema can now be read by Excel
without having to be reformatted.
Access. For users who want to extract data from one or more
tables in a database, Microsoft Access is the most appropriate
Office tool. With Access, users can browse related tables in a
database and choose how to export data by defining the structure
of a customer-defined XSD.
Visio. For users who want to integrate information coming from a
database into a diagram, Visio® drawing and diagramming
software can maintain corporate data in a Visio XML file using a
corporate schema. Users can then mine the Visio XML document
to automatically retrieve data in the diagram.
XDocs. A new application in the Office product family, XDocs is
optimized for the creation of rich, dynamic forms that capture
highly structured, grouped textual or numerical information with
few paragraphs of formatted text. It enables customers to gather
business-critical data typically captured in documents such as sales
reports, inventory updates, project memos, travel itineraries and
performance reviews, using any customer-defined XML schema.
FrontPage. To display live data on the Web, users can build
data-driven Web sites using FrontPage. Customers define how
XML documents that follow any XSD will be displayed on the
Web by authoring Extensible Stylesheet Language
Transformations (XSLTs) directly in the FrontPage editor.
Bringing the XML Vision to the Desktop
The original vision of the creators of XML was to allow critical
information to be captured in a way that would let an organization reuse
and repurpose it in whatever processes or documents necessary. By
"unlocking" data from the code that determines a document's format,
XML accomplished this vision. With its inclusion of rich support for
native and customer-defined XML schemas in "Office 11," the upcoming
version of the world's most popular productivity suite, Microsoft is taking
a leading role in driving mainstream adoption for the XML standard on
the desktop.
Additional information on "Office 11" can be found at
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/newsroom/office/default.asp.
Microsoft will be located in Booth 339 at the XML Conference &
Exposition.
About Jean Paoli
Since 1985, when the technology was known as SGML, Jean Paoli has
been a significant player in the worldwide XML community. Paoli is one
of the co-creators of the XML 1.0 standard with the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C) and has long been a passionate advocate of XML.
Paoli started the original XML activity at Microsoft by creating and
managing the team that delivered the software that XML-enabled both
Internet Explorer and the Windows® operating system. He now works
on the Office team, where he focuses on building end-user markup
editing tools.
About XML Conference & Exposition 2002
Produced by IDEAlliance, XML Conference & Exposition 2002 is the
latest in the XML conference series, the largest and longest-running
annual gathering of XML users and developers in the world. Participants
in XML 2002 can take advantage of a variety of learning formats,
including technical sessions, keynote addresses, plenary sessions,
informal business receptions, discussion groups and social events. This
year's event offers attendees the most comprehensive and focused
program to date, with more than 100 sessions given by professionals
from around the globe. More information about the XML Conference &
Exposition 2002 can be found at http://www.xmlconference.org/xmlusa/.
About IDEAlliance
IDEAlliance (International Digital Enterprise Alliance) is a not-for-profit
membership organization. Its mission is to advance user-driven,
cross-industry solutions for all publishing and content-related processes
by developing standards, fostering business alliances and identifying best
practices. More information about IDEAlliance can be found at
http://www.idealliance.org/.
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