[ms-xlsx]: Excel (. xlsx) Extensions to the Office Open xml spreadsheetml file Format Intellectual Property Rights Notice for Open Specifications Documentation

1.2References

Links to a document in the Microsoft Open Specifications library point to the correct section in the most recently published version of the referenced document. However, because individual documents in the library are not updated at the same time, the section numbers in the documents may not match. You can confirm the correct section numbering by checking the Errata.

1.2.1Normative References

We conduct frequent surveys of the normative references to assure their continued availability. If you have any issue with finding a normative reference, please contact [e-mail]. We will assist you in finding the relevant information.

[CSS-Level2-2009] Bos, B., Celik, T., Hickson, I., and Wium Lie, H., Eds., "Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS 2.1) Specification", W3C Candidate Recommendation 08 September 2009, http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-CSS2-20090908/

[ISO/IEC29500-1:2012] ISO/IEC, "Information Technology -- Document description and processing languages -- Office Open XML File Formats -- Part 1: Fundamentals and Markup Language Reference", ISO/IEC 29500-1:2012, http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?csnumber=61750

[ISO/IEC29500-3:2011] ISO/IEC, "Information technology -- Document description and processing languages -- Office Open XML File Formats -- Part 3: Markup Compatibility and Extensibility", ISO/IEC 29500-3:2011, 2011, http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=59577

[ISO/IEC29500-4:2012] ISO/IEC, "Information technology -- Document description and processing languages -- Office Open XML File Formats -- Part 4: Transitional Migration Features", ISO/IEC 29500-4:2012, http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?csnumber=61798

[ISO/IEC29500:2012] ISO/IEC, "Information Technology -- Document description and processing languages -- Office Open XML File Formats -- Parts 1-4", ISO/IEC 29500-1:2012, http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?csnumber=61750

[MS-ODRAWXML] Microsoft Corporation, "Office Drawing Extensions to Office Open XML Structure".

[MS-OFFCRYPTO] Microsoft Corporation, "Office Document Cryptography Structure".

[MS-OWEXML] Microsoft Corporation, "Office Web Extensibility Extensions to Office Open XML Structure Specification".

[MS-XLDM] Microsoft Corporation, "Spreadsheet Data Model File Format".

[MS-XLSB] Microsoft Corporation, "Excel (.xlsb) Binary File Format".

[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997, http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt

[RFC3066] Alvestrand, H., "Tags for the Identification of Languages", BCP 47, RFC 3066, January 2001, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3066.txt

[RFC5234] Crocker, D., Ed., and Overell, P., "Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF", STD 68, RFC 5234, January 2008, http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5234.txt

[RFC5646] Phillips, A, and Davis, M., "Tags for Identifying Languages", BCP 47, RFC 4646, September 2006, http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt

[UNICODE5.1] The Unicode Consortium, "The Unicode Standard, Version 5.1.0, defined by: The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0 (Boston, MA, Addison-Wesley, 2007. ISBN 0-321-48091-0), as amended by Unicode 5.1.0", http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/

[W3C-XML] Bray, T., Paoli, J., Sperberg-McQueen, C.M., Maler, E., Yergeau, F., Eds., "Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1 (Second Edition)", W3C Recommendation, August 2006, http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml11-20060816/

[XMLNS] Bray, T., Hollander, D., Layman, A., et al., Eds., "Namespaces in XML 1.0 (Third Edition)", W3C Recommendation, December 2009, http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-xml-names-20091208/

[XMLSCHEMA1] Thompson, H., Beech, D., Maloney, M., and Mendelsohn, N., Eds., "XML Schema Part 1: Structures", W3C Recommendation, May 2001, http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-1-20010502/

[XMLSCHEMA2] Biron, P.V., Ed. and Malhotra, A., Ed., "XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes", W3C Recommendation, May 2001, http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-2-20010502/

1.2.2Informative References

[ISO/IEC29500-2:2012] ISO/IEC, "Information technology -- Document description and processing languages -- Office Open XML File Formats -- Part 2: Open Packaging Conventions", ISO/IEC 29500-2:2012, http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?csnumber=61796

[MS-AZOD] Microsoft Corporation, "Authorization Protocols Overview".

1.3Structure Overview (Synopsis)

This document specifies spreadsheet-related extensions to Office Open XML file formats as described in [ISO/IEC29500-1:2012]. Workbook data is contained in a ZIP package conforming to the Open Packaging Conventions as described in [ISO/IEC29500-2:2012]. Individual files stored in the ZIP package, called parts [ISO/IEC29500-1:2012], contain information about the content and structure of a workbook, including workbook data, such as worksheet definitions. Some parts [ISO/IEC29500-1:2012]) store information by using XML and other parts [ISO/IEC29500-1:2012] store information by using binary data. The extensions specified in this document use the conventions specified by [ISO/IEC29500-3:2011], and they are both structures within parts specified by [ISO/IEC29500-1:2012] and extension parts within the package described by [ISO/IEC29500-2:2012].

1.4Relationship to Protocols and Other Structures

This file format is a specified set of extensions to Office Open XML SpreadsheetML, specified in [ISO/IEC29500-1:2012]. This specification is dependent on the structures and concepts defined in the following references:

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  [ISO/IEC29500-1:2012] for baseline SpreadsheetML persistence format.
  
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  [ISO/IEC29500-2:2012] for open packaging conventions.
  
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  [ISO/IEC29500-3:2011] for markup compatibility and extensibility.
  
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  [ISO/IEC29500-4:2012] for backward compatibility considerations.
  
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  [MS-OFFCRYPTO] for the persistence format for document signing, information rights management, document encryption, and obfuscation.
  
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  [MS-ODRAWXML] for the persistence format for shapes.