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Apple Publishes Keynote XML Schema

Posted by pudge on from the because-computers-are-just-too-fast dept.

grouchomarxist writes "Apple has published a technote on the XML file format (APXL schema) used by their new presentation application Keynote. They've also created a mailing list for those interested in writing Keynote tools." I am so there.

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  1. Adapt Axpoint to Keynote? by Void · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Maybe one should fork the excellent-but-still-buggy-and-incomplete AxPoint system to be keynote compatible. For those that don't know axpoint: it's a perl module that generates nice PDF presentations from an xml file...

  2. Re:Is this unique? by Draoi · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not that I'm aware of. However, there's nothing to stop you importing an existing .ppt file into Keynote & barfing it back out as the now-published xml file. Instant Powerpoint standardiser ... :-)

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