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Overview

PowerML core is a free, 100% pure Java API which enables you to parse Microsoft PowerPoint files and generate documents containing parsed presentation data in an XML-based format, namely PowerML. Please take a look at the features supported by PowerML.

The documentation page provides you with a quick start guide, and an API and XML schema reference.

Platform Independence

Being a component written in 100% pure Java, PowerML core can be integrated into stand-alone applications as well as into web applications running within application servers. Neither PowerPoint nor Windows is needed, just a Java 2 (or newer) runtime environment (standard edition).

Scenarios

Why should you want to convert a presentation to XML? For the same reasons why XML got so popular: readability, interoperability, and portability. The generated XML (PowerML)

can be easily transformed to other XML-based formats (e.g. with XSLT), or to animated formats like SVG or Macromedia Flash (also check out JSwiff)
can be read on different platforms, also by non-Java programs
can be read by humans with a simple text viewer