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Microsoft Word Document ML Schemas Published

Posted by timothy on from the danish-means-more-than-a-snack dept.

Lars Munch writes "On Monday the 17th November the xml schemas for the Word Document ML along with documentation, was uploaded to the Infostructurebase (ISB). With the Word Document ML specification anybody can generate, view and process Microsoft word documents on any format." (Here are the legal terms under which the schemas can be used.) "The Word Document ML is based on the W3C specification eXtensible Markup Language (XML), there by providing documents that are easy to integrate into a large variety of systems. The Danish Government Infostructurebase is the first schema repository to make the schemas accessible to the public. The Microsoft Office Document ML schemas and documentation can now be downloaded from the ISB Repository." There are more links on this page.

3 of 439 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Not so fast by Chokolad · · Score: 5, Informative

    > Wait a second ... I think the XML-format document types are only available for corporate versions of MS office. If that is true there still will be a lot of propiertary binary-only .DOCuments around in the future.

    You are wrong. Word Standard Edition can save into WordML (which schema has been published). Enterprise version allows you to map certain parts of documents into Xml with customer specified schema.

  2. GPL does not require sublicensing by David+Jao · · Score: 5, Informative
    GPL 7 requires the right to sublicence patent rights to the people who obtain a GPL program from you.

    Not true. Section 7 of the GPL requires that patent rights be publicly available, but it does not require that you personally sublicense those patent rights.

    Specifically, GPL section 7 says:

    ... if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.
    Since the Microsoft patent license does permit royalty-free redistribution, it does not contradict the GPL in this regard (although it may have other incompatibilities; I have not looked at the whole thing thoroughly yet).
  3. Re:Out-Open-Sourcing Open Source by KagakuNinja · · Score: 5, Informative

    Word will now allow anyone to create XML Schemas and "Solutions" (groups of schemae)...

    Just thought you would like to know, the plural of schema is schemata.

    Mr. Language Person