Jon Udell: Brian Jones on Office XML (Channel 9)

Jon Udell: Brian Jones on Office XML

Posted: Feb 05, 2007 at 2:53 PM

By: JonUdell

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Brian Jones has been working on infusing XML smarts into Office for six years. In this episode we discuss the history of, the current status of, and future prospects for XML-enabled Office applications.

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SecretSoftware Code to live, but Live to code.

Feb 05, 2007 at 6:48 PM

Very Cool. On ward!
j0217995

Feb 06, 2007 at 5:41 AM

One small criticism of this is that it seems more of the converstation is Jon explaining things and Brian agreeing w/ him. I thought Brian was supposed to be the "expert" here. Otherwise I loved this podcast as well.
geoMcC

Feb 06, 2007 at 11:36 AM

Jon's remark about "Beatles fame" puts an immediate spanner in the works, compounded by XML Brian's lack of WTF (or maybe he was being polite). Rolling Stones guys.....

Now I have that off my chest I can listen to the rest of the podcast.
JonUdell

Feb 06, 2007 at 10:09 PM

"Rolling Stones guys....."

Ouch. Now there's a category slip! I'm always fascinated by those. In this case it went like so, I think:

Rolling Stones -> Brian Jones -> Brian Epstein -> Beatles

Clearly we've both spent too much time in XML-land...
BrianJones

Feb 07, 2007 at 6:58 AM

That's great, I didn't even notice. I've had folks say it to me enough times that I just assumed you'd said the Rolling Stones.
rasx Emperor of String.Empty

Feb 08, 2007 at 10:09 AM

Since you, Jon, are actually a writer that does understand the power of XML, your valuable commentary on these two items would be greatly appreciated:

“CleanXHTML for Microsoft Office Word 2003″
http://songhaysystem.com/document.php?doc=40

“DocBook XSL: a Complete Guide, Open XML XSL: an Incomplete Guide”
http://www.kintespace.com/rasxlog/?p=542