Overview

The OpenXML Document Viewer project is an outcome of the feedback from participants of a series of Document Interoperability Initiative workshops.

The main goal of the OpenXML Document Viewer project is to create software tools, plus guidance, showing how documents created using Open XML Format can be translated to HTML. As a result, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), Solutions Integrators & Mobile Solution providers can use these tools to enable their customers view Open XML documents on heterogeneous platforms and browser applications. The OpenXML Viewer is available under the open source Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL), which allows anyone to use the tools, submit bugs and feedback, or contribute to the project. We have chosen to use an Open Source development model that allows developers from all around the world to participate and contribute to the project.

We are pleased to announce the release of the OpenXmlViewer v1.0. Please click here for the release details.

For a video demo, please see the post titled OpenXML Document Viewer v1 released: viewing .DOCX on the Microsoft Interoperability Team Blog.

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Architecture


Logical Architecture

OpenXMLViewer has been developed using C++ with goal of making it a cross browser and cross platform translation engine.

One of the advantages of having a core transformation engine is that it can be used in the application/web server to transform openxml documents to HTML and send a response back to the client browser as html. This eliminates the need for browser plug-ins on the client and provides uniform experience across operating systems and devices.

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Please click here for Tools and Technology Information

Contributors

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