Re: Editing Binary PowerPoint files

All of MS Office supports some version of XML. (At least, Word and Excel both do.) This isn't to say that the XML spec is documented, but you might be able to reverse-engineer it by saving your powerpoint projects as XML and seeing what happens ... (Of course, if you do this, I'd highly recommend putting at least the spec on the Net so that others can benefit from it, if not making a CPAN distribution .......)

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Re: Re: Editing Binary PowerPoint files by punchcard_don (Beadle) on Mar 18, 2004 at 20:36 UTC
All of MS Office supports some version of XML. I do so wish that were true. And MS did promise it in Office 2003. Alas, they remain true to form: PowerPoint is the only Office 2003 component with no, zero, XML support. I would be elated to be proven wrong!!!	[reply]