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.

The project has been released as an open source project under the MS-PL license

The focus of this release is around providing a reusable OpenXML to HTML engine that can be leveraged to build more complex solutions.

The installation guidelines for the plug-in is available here.

The project roadmap can be found here

The detailed release notes are available in the Downloads & Files section above.

We are thrilled about making this initial version available to you and look forward to your comments.

Following are the high-level features we have implemented in this release:

• 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

Please give the OpenXML Viewer a try, share you feedback with us, join the project discussion!


- The OpenXML Viewer Team