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The Microsoft Office XML formats are XML-based document formats (or XML schemas) introduced in versions of Microsoft Office prior to Office 2007. Microsoft Office XP introduced a new XML format for storing Excel spreadsheets and Office 2003 added an XML-based format for Word documents.
Office Open XML (also informally known as OOXML) [5] is a zipped, XML-based file format developed by Microsoft for representing spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. Ecma International standardized the initial version as ECMA-376.
A basic package contains an XML file called [Content_Types].xml at the root, along with three directories: _rels, docProps, and a directory specific for the document type (for example, in a .docx word processing package, there would be a word directory). The word directory contains the document.xml file which is the core content of the document.
Microsoft Excel uses dedicated file formats that are not part of OOXML, and use the following extensions:.xlsb – Excel binary worksheet (BIFF12).xla – Excel add-in that can contain macros.xlam – Excel macro-enabled add-in.xll – Excel XLL add-in; a form of DLL-based add-in [1].xlw – Excel work space; previously known as "workbook"
As the file format is a group of XML files within a ZIP; unzipping, editing, and replacing the workbook.xml file (and/or the individual worksheet XML files) with identical copies in which the unknown key and salt are replaced with a known pair or removed altogether allows the sheets to be edited. [citation needed]
SpreadsheetML is the XML schema for Microsoft Office Excel 2003. The Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas are included in the Microsoft Open Specification Promise , a legal statement concerning unrestricted use of Microsoft intellectual property.
Microsoft Open XML Format SDK [78] contains a set of managed code libraries to create and manipulate Office Open XML files programmatically. Version 1.0 was released on June 10, 2008 [ 79 ] and incorporates the changes made to the Office Open XML specification made during the current ISO/IEC standardization process. [ 80 ]
In character data and attribute values, XML 1.1 allows the use of more control characters than XML 1.0, but, for "robustness", most of the control characters introduced in XML 1.1 must be expressed as numeric character references (and #x7F through #x9F, which had been allowed in XML 1.0, are in XML 1.1 even required to be expressed as numeric ...