In Microsoft's Office 2003, users experience the merger of the power of
the classic Office suite of applications with the fluidity of data
exchange inherent in XML. With XML at its heart, the new version of
Microsoft's desktop suite liberates the information stored in millions
of documents created with Office software over the past fifteen years,
making it available to a wide variety of programs.Office 2003 XML
offers an in-depth exploration of the relationship between XML and
Office 2003, examining how the various products in the Office suite both
produce and consume XML. Developers will learn how they can connect
Microsoft Office to others systems, while power users will learn to
create and analyze XML documents using familiar Office tools.The book
begins with an overview of the XML features included in the various
Office 2003 components, and explores in detail how Word, Excel, and
Access interact with XML. This book covers both the user interface side,
creating interfaces so that users can comfortably (and even unknowingly)
work with XML, and the back end, exposing Office information to other
processes. It also looks at Microsoft's new InfoPath application and how
it fits with the rest of Office. Finally, the book's appendices
introduce various XML technologies that may be useful in working with
Office, including XSLT, W3C XML Schema, RELAX NG, and SOAP.Office 2003
XML provides quick and clear guidance to a anyone who needs to import
or export information from Office documents into other systems. Both XML
programmers and Office power will learn how to get the most from this
powerful new intersection between Office 2003 and XML.
