Office Open XML Converter was created on 2008-07-03.
Office Open XML was created on 2006-12-07.
Open XML Paper Specification was created in 2006-10.
In computer lingo XML stands for Extensible Markup Language. It is a textual data format and is used in interchanging data over the Internet. XML-based formats have become the default for most office-productivity tools, including Microsoft Office (Office Open XML), OpenOffice.org (OpenDocument), and Apple's iWork.
Microsoft is constantly reworking their formats causing compatibility problems between the various versions of their software. Office 2007 was particularly problematical. Microsoft has released converter software to assist in sharing documents.They say:Open XML Converter allows you to convert Open XML files that were created in Office 2008 for Mac or Office 2007 for Windows so that you can open, edit, and save them in earlier versions of Office for Mac. This update contains several improvements to enhance stability and performance.See links below.An alternative approach would be to choose an alternative format when saving the document to be shared which both versions of Word can use.
Prince XML was created in 2003-04.
Liquid XML Studio was created in 2003.
XML Notepad was created on 2006-09-01.
If you open the xml in most web browser it will state an error code denoting the type of malformation of the xml. you can use an xml tool like an xml editor to validate and correct your xml.
It extends the HTML - Hypertext Markup Language used in defining web pages. Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. XML-based formats have become the default for many office-productivity tools, including Microsoft Office (Office Open XML), OpenOffice.org (OpenDocument).
The Open Document Format for Office Applications (also known as OpenDocument or ODF) is an XML-based file format for representing electronic documents such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. While the specifications were originally developed by Sun Microsystems, the standard was developed by the OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC - OASIS ODF TC [2], committee of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) consortium and based on the XML format originally created and implemented by the OpenOffice.org office suite (see OpenOffice.org XML). In addition to being an OASIS standard, it is published (in one of its version 1.0 manifestations) as an ISO/IEC international standard, ISO/IEC 26300:2006 Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.0.[3]
Yes, Excel is capable of opening XML files.
Regular Language description for XML was created in 2000.