Looking for the MS spec for OneNote 365 version

Question

I am an Apache Tika committer (https://github.com/apache/tika)

and I am working on OneNote 365 parsing. In particular, .one files.

I have already written parsers for 2013 and 2016 versions of OneNote.

I am trying to see if my existing code works for parsing OneNote 365 (one note files generated from SharePoint Online). But it does not at this time.

I opened up the MS-ONE and MS-ONESTORE specifications and am trying to figure out if I can get this to work.

As far as I can tell, the specification does not apply to the OneNote 365 version documents.

I am looking at the header, and comparing with the MS-ONESTORE specification.

Here are the first 3
guidFileType - 16 bytes
{7B5C52E4-D88C-4DA7-AEB1-5378D02996D3}

guidFile - 16 bytes
{D276BC67-FD7F-4D5C-65CB-9DDBA52A90D1}

guidLegacyFileVersion - 16 bytes
{D276BC67-FD7F-4D5C-65CB-9DDBA52A90D1}

The guidFileType is correct. The spec says this GUID matches the .one file which is correct.

The guidFile is supposed to be a random GUID. No way to know if this is correct or not. so we move on.

But then there is guidLegacyFileVersion.

The spec says: MUST be "{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}" and
MUST be ignored.

But in the OneNote 365 version has the exact same GUID in that position as the guidFile field.

Is there a specification specifically for this version of OneNote?

Answer 1

@nicholas dipiazza

Accoring to your description, your issue is more realted to OneNote development, but tag "office-onenote-client-itpro" focus more on general issues of OneNote client.

To better help you, I would suggest you post new thread on forums the following link redirects.
OneNote add-ins developer community

Thanks for your understanding.

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