Intro to Word XML Part 2: Simple Formatting

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re: Intro to Word XML Part 2: Simple Formatting

Jasper — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:37:11 GMT

Great information... I need to know how to get tabspacing values in Open Office XML format......

re: Intro to Word XML Part 2: Simple Formatting

Zander Westendarp — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 23:44:33 GMT

We are trying to use Word as our XML editor, and we apply our own schema. Our schema uses mixed content for our <para> element, enabling authors to tag runs with emphasis or inline url's for example. When saved as Data-only, we loose the significant whitespace around the contained elements. We then have to add it back programatically in the XSLT--very messy with foreign languages!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but what I hear you saying is that Office 12 will continue with this "data loss" implementation. That means our choices are:
1. Switch to WordProcessingML
2. Switch to a different XML editor

re: Intro to Word XML Part 2: Simple Formatting

I'm Brian Jones — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 06:00:25 GMT

Eric, that's one of the many great things you can do with this new format. I've already seen a number of filters (aka transforms) that go from WordML into other formats and back into WordML. Now that the formats are open and fully documented, anyone can do just that.

Ryan, that's a great question. I've been looking at adding a way to specify on a field that it should be updated on open without the user needing to take any actions. There are obviously security issues anytime you do an automatic update so it would have to only be on specific types of fields (TOC is a great example).

-Brian

re: Intro to Word XML Part 2: Simple Formatting

Ryan Ackley — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 22:33:36 GMT

How do you plan on dealing with creating a Table of Contents in XML? Right now, a user must manually update the Table Of Contents (press F9) when the document changes or write a macro to keep it accurate.

So lets assume a TOC was created in the new XML. The way Word works currently, the first time that document was opened, the user would have to select the TOC and press f9 before the TOC would contain accurate page numbers

Will Office 12 automatically update the TOC on open? Will earlier versions of Office be retro-fitted to deal with this?

re: Intro to Word XML Part 2: Simple Formatting

Eric D. Burdo — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:31:19 GMT

Wow... I must say, I am itchin to get this onto my desk. :)

I run several websites using TextPattern ( http://www.textpattern.com/ ). TXP uses its own formatting called TexTile. It is great for formatting, but when I have dozens of articles to publish, I like to use my word processor (MS Word). Unfortunately, I can't produce clean HTML that can be easily parsed to TexTile.

With this new XML format, I can easily see a simple convert to reformat a document with any tags I want. Custom X/HTML, CSS and HTML, TexTile, etc.

re: Intro to Word XML Part 2: Simple Formatting

I'm Brian Jones — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 04:49:05 GMT

Thanks Eugen, I'll show some basic stuff with custom defined schemas in the next "Intro to Word XML" post.

re: Intro to Word XML Part 2: Simple Formatting

Eugen Bacic — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 21:33:15 GMT

If you're taking a poll, I'll vote for "working with custom defined schema in Word".

And thanks for these articles, it does make things easier to sort through than the schemas themselves.

re: Intro to Word XML Part 2: Simple Formatting

I'm Brian Jones — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:44:33 GMT

Thanks Darryl, I updated the original post to note that it should have read "WordprocessingML".

re: Intro to Word XML Part 2: Simple Formatting

Darryl Hover — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 18:30:59 GMT

Thanks Brian. Having things broken down into little chaunks like this makes it easier to soak in.

The last sentence in the third paragraph reads "The HTML for this will look like:". I think you meant "The WordprocessingML...",no?

Good stuff.
Darryl