Today's author, Chris Rae, a Program Manager on the Excel team, talks about using Perl code to read Excel's new file format. The OOXML Format As most readers will know, we spent a lot of time during the development of Office 2007 in creating and documenting a new XML-based file format (Office Open XML) to replace the much more complex binary formats the various Office applications have used for the last twenty years. A lot of time. Many of us dream in XML now. OOXML encompasses an XML file
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Aug 15 2008, 01:40 AM
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