OpenXML Viewer (CTP) – Open DocX files in FireFox (Windows/Linux) or via command line DocX to HTML utility

CodePlex - OpenXML Document Viewer

“The Office Open XML format specification has been approved as a free and open Ecma International standard. A newer improved version is approved as an ISO/IEC standard.

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 …

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Milestone1: November 2008 Community Technology Preview

For the first milestone, the focus of the project will be on building the core architectural components for the OpenXML to HTML translator that can be leveraged to build the plug-ins for various platforms to enable cross-platform support.

The following features are planned for the first milestone:

• Core transformation framework
• Browser plug-ins for Firefox 3.0.x on Windows and Linux
• Word Document features including translation of
  • font types
  • images
  • text styles
  • diagrams
  • tables
  • hyperlinks
• Test Results

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OpenXML Document Viewer - November 2008 Community Technology Preview

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 OpenXMLViewer_linux_firefox.tar
application, 10920K, uploaded Wed 

 OpenXMLViewer_linux_src.tar
source code, 186K, uploaded Wed 

 OpenXMLViewer_win_firefox.zip
application, 3577K, uploaded Wed 

 OpenXMLViewer_win_src.zip
source code, 138K, uploaded Wed 

 Release Notes.doc
documentation, 176K, uploaded Wed 

 OpenXMLViewer_linux_cmdline.zip
application, 10810K, uploaded Today 

 OpenXMLViewer_win_cmdline.zip
application, 3590K, uploaded Today 

Release Notes

The OpenXML Document Viewer team is pleased to announce the release of the first version of the Open XML to HTML project. The OpenXML Document Viewer project provides plug-ins and tools to view MS Word 2007 documents on platforms where Word 2007 is not available. This is achieved by using the OpenXMLViewer browser plug-in or the command line interface to convert the Word document (.docx) into HTML.

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Interesting project… OpenXML is a monster (7k pages to the spec = monster in my book ;) so it’s good to see both someone implementing it and making that implementation available to others. No matter your feeling about OpenXML/ODF, I think you’ll agree that having open, cross platform, OSS and free access to the DocX’s is a good thing?