Bringing the XML Vision to the Desktop With 'Office 11'

»Jean Paoli, »Microsoft Corporation

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Abstract

This presentation will focus on four key areas:

The original vision of XML and the importance of enabling end users to use their own custom-defined schemas in their documents.

The significant XML investments made in "Office 11" to help achieve this vision.

The technical architecture adopted to enable Word, Excel, XDocs, Access and the FrontPage(R) Web site creation and management tool to work with any customer-defined schemas.

How the paradigm for the Office family of products has evolved to enable customers to use the data defined by their own schemas, enabling better integration with XML Web Services.

Keywords

»Authoring, »Microsoft Office.

1. Keynote Talk

This was a keynote talk and as such no paper was prepared for the proceedings.

Biography

»Jean Paoli

XML Architect

»Microsoft Corporation

»Redmond, Washington

»United States of America

Email: jeanpa@Microsoft.com

Web: http://www.microsoft.com

Jean Paoli is XML architect at Microsoft, and one of the co-creators of the XML 1.0 standard with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). He has long been a strong and passionate advocate of XML and open standards.Jean jump-started the XML activity in Microsoft. He created and managed the team that delivered msxml, the software that XML-enabled IE and Windows. He works now in the Microsoft Office team.Paoli has been a significant player in the worldwide XML community since 1985, when the technology was then known as SGML. Until 1996, when he joined Microsoft, Jean was based in Paris, where he worked in collaboration with European research institutes, including INRIA in France. He designed for important corporations a lot of systems where SGML, in its approach of structuring and storing information, ensured the long life and easy exchangeability of the data across systems. His specialty has been building end-user markup editing tools.