Create a rich Word document based on your own custom XML (without the need for XSLT)

re: Create a rich Word document based on your own custom XML (without the need for XSLT)

Mary Branscombe — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:33:24 GMT

Do the content controls cover images? I'm hunting for a simple way to replace an existing formatted image in a document with a new image that gets the same layout and formatting and XML ought to make that much easier!

re: Create a rich Word document based on your own custom XML (without the need for XSLT)

BrianJones — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 02:56:59 GMT

Hi Mary, there is a content control of type "image", but I'm not sure if that's what your asking for exactly. Do you mean that you want to do this is just one specific file? Or you want an easy way of doing this in multiple files? What is it about your scenario that's currently giving you trouble? Is the resizing the problem?

-Brian

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Darryl Hover — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:11:27 GMT

I've been waiting for this file since the PDC. :) Thanks Brian!

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magua — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:21:08 GMT

All I want to see is the code, which makes more sense commentary

re: Create a rich Word document based on your own custom XML (without the need for XSLT)

itsadok — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:12:47 GMT

I think this is the most exciting feature of Office 12 I've seen yet, and that's saying a lot! It's the missing link between Word templates and custom database applications, and I'm sure it will be one of those things we'll wonder how we ever managed without.

This serves to further underline the sore lack of a proper Word 12 blog - after three "hello world" posts and one post ironically claiming there's nothing you can add to Word, the guy disappeared. "Joe Friend" sounds like a made up name anyway...
http://blogs.msdn.com/joe%5Ffriend/

re: Create a rich Word document based on your own custom XML (without the need for XSLT)

BrianJones — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:25:31 GMT

I've been giving Joe a hard time about getting his blog going. He definitely has been intending to provide more information but it's a really busy time for all of us in Office.

I'll let Joe know you'd like to see some content though. :-)

I'm glad you're excited about the content controls. They are some of my favorite features. One thing I do want to point out though as a limitation of the content control XML mapping capability is that it doesn't support repeating content. So it's really valuable when connecting to a specific row of a database, if you want to do more traditional reporting type of functionality than you'll see that limitation pretty quickly. It's something I really wish we'd been able to do, but just didn't have the time to fit it in. It's still an extremely powerful feature, and if you really want to do repeating you can write some custom logic, but it won't work automatically.

-Brian

re: Create a rich Word document based on your own custom XML (without the need for XSLT)

Chris Evans — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:11:22 GMT

Brian, can content controls contain other context controls?

-- If so, that might be a workaround for repeated content.

re: Create a rich Word document based on your own custom XML (without the need for XSLT)

rodrigo — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:53:05 GMT

This is a great post, thanks.

I added a new content control to the document, but it didn't show up on customxml/item1.xml...could you please give some instructions show I should proceed to accomplish this?

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rodrigo — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:56:39 GMT

One more thing: will we have content controls in PowerPoint 12 too?

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BrianJones — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 04:03:50 GMT

Chris, content controls of type "rich text" can contain other content controls, but that doesn't help as much with repeating as it does with "grouping". By creating a group, it is easier to repeat a structured chunk, but it wouldn't happen automatically.

Rodrigo, you need to add the XML part through the Object Model. Once you do that, you can programatically set the content control to be bound to a node in your XML part.
PowerPoint 12 will not have content controls, but they do support the storage of seperate XML parts. You won't have the controls to bind to though...

-Brian

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Randy Brown — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 03:09:37 GMT

Brian,

Can you clarify the following:
"One thing I do want to point out though as a limitation of the content control XML mapping capability is that it doesn't support repeating content."

Does this mean that if I have a content control in several places in a Word Doc that represents the same info, and I programmatically change the XML node that the content is based on, not all content controls will update through-out the doc? Or, are you saying that you cannot throw an IEnumerable type of object (like a dataset with mult rows) at the XML souce and expect the content controls to account for all the rows of data?

Thanks Brian...

re: Create a rich Word document based on your own custom XML (without the need for XSLT)

BrianJones — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 05:14:22 GMT

Hey Randy, it's the later.
If you are going more for a DB reporting type of scenario (with multi rows), then the mapping probably won't work for you. You could probably get it to work, but it would require a good amount of additional code.

You can have multiple controls mapped to one node, and they will all stay in sync.

-Brian

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re: Create a rich Word document based on your own custom XML (without the need for XSLT)

Zwah — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:23:27 GMT

- Rodrigo, you need to add the XML part through the Object Model. Once you do that, you can programatically set the content control to be bound to a node in your XML part.

Can you provide more information on this please? In this XML I have found items like
<w:dataBinding w:prefixMappings="xmlns:ns0='http://contoso.com/2005/contracts/commercialSale'" w:xpath="/ns0:contract[1]/ns0:placeExecuted[1]" w:storeItemID="{C65DD089-F388-4A84-8443-BC4CB07DEB45}" />
which appear to be what is required to map the xml to the content controls, but can't work out how do actually do it.

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Ed Richard — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 06:06:21 GMT

Thanks for this info Brian, whish I'd seen this b4 DevCon 2006 so I could have asked you about it. As it turns out I only started looking for info on Content Controls after the conference ;-)
But I agree very exiting addition, however not having repeating groups is a disappointment.
Anyway, now we do really need a post on mapping,... please?

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willib — Wed, 03 May 2006 10:42:29 GMT

Hello

will it be possible to map to boolean XML datatypes?

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Chris Evans — Wed, 24 May 2006 17:30:42 GMT

Hey Brian -- I've been playing with the Content Controls and the Rich Text control doesn't seem to allow for multiple lines of Rich Text. Am I doing something wrong?

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Chris Evans — Wed, 24 May 2006 17:33:35 GMT

Er'... Sorry Brian... Must have been some kind of bug. I dropped a new one and it allowed multiple lines at that point

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re — Tue, 30 May 2006 16:13:45 GMT

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re: Create a rich Word document based on your own custom XML (without the need for XSLT)

Mahesh — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 11:19:07 GMT

Hi,
Do u know how to insert the any other word file content in any word file using wordprocessingML in word 2003?
I have senorio like i will have 1 xml file which will have content and using xslt i will convert to wordML in that xml file iwl have any other word file path which content i have to addin target wordml file.
so i am looking for, does it possible to insert that content of word file using file path in wordml applying xslt?
u can send me mail at mpatil@investec.co.za
Thanks in advance

Rgds
Mahesh

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re: Create a rich Word document based on your own custom XML (without the need for XSLT)

Martin Nuss — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:02:35 GMT

Hi,
I am working on the same problem as rodrigo and Zwah.

"- Rodrigo, you need to add the XML part through the Object Model. Once you do that, you can programatically set the content control to be bound to a node in your XML part."

Can you provide more information on this please? In this XML I have found items like
<w:dataBinding w:prefixMappings="xmlns:ns0='http://contoso.com/2005/contracts/commercialSale'" w:xpath="/ns0:contract[1]/ns0:placeExecuted[1]" w:storeItemID="{C65DD089-F388-4A84-8443-BC4CB07DEB45}" />
which appear to be what is required to map the xml to the content controls, but can't work out how do actually do it.

I would be very thankful for some detailed information about the link between the content control and the customXML property...

Thanks in advance
Martin

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re: Create a rich Word document based on your own custom XML (without the need for XSLT)

karthikonmsdn — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:40:05 GMT

Dear All,

One thing i have to clarify that "Is it possible to open and edit the Office 2007 generated word document in previous version of Office. [May be this question is silly].

re: Create a rich Word document based on your own custom XML (without the need for XSLT)

Dominique — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:55:45 GMT

I can't figure out how one can do point 3 discussed in point 3.

"Using building blocks to generate rich structures document fragments that can be easily inserted into a document and automatically bind to the custom XML already present"

A building block can contain content controls but the declarative mapping of your custom xml data to existing content controls happens in the document.xml. This is ok for existing controls. But when a user inserts a building block with a content control how can you map in the document.xml to that control that wasn't there yet in the first place ?

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Denise — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:57:46 GMT

In Word 2003, is there a way when creating/editing xml documents based on a custom schema to have drop-down boxes with the enumeration values from the schema?
Thanks,
Denise

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Bruce — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:58:01 GMT

I have been sending out newsletters created in Word 2002. I was able to create great looking emails and send them to a short list of people without doing mailmerge.

Using Office 2002 I was able to click on the email icon and place the document in the body of my email. When I do this in Office 2007 it automatically attaches the document to the email.
Is there a way to use a document as the email body in Office 2007 without putting the document as an attachment?

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