Rich Text Content Control and Custom XML Part

carloshm — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:44:00 GMT

Hi,

Maybe you have used the Word 2007 Content Control Toolkit, and after mapping a Rich Text Content Control with a XML node, you have noticed that it turns into a plain text content control.

This is something that Word 2007 Content Control Toolkit manages, as it is not expected behaviour of the current implemented version of content controls.

You can check at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb226172.aspx that the expected action would be a run-time error.

The same way when you map a XML node to a picture content control, it stores the base-64 binary representation; it would be great to include the rich text representation (Ecma 376) of the text.

Cheers!

Office 2007 ODF - UOF Support

carloshm — Tue, 22 May 2007 18:40:00 GMT

Hi,

Maybe you have read about projects for supporting UOF. Similar approach to the ODF support.

You can check them at:

What I wasn't aware of, is the study to merge both formats. I can extract some text from the article:

One reason has to do with the formats' allocation of their respective namespaces. The Lab described the UOF schema as being much more structured, replete, and flexible, while certain parts of the ODF schema seem more arbitrary.

This seems a real example of a possible future evolution of the current ODF format, sort of anounce at Brian Jones blog. The conclusion was a conversor http://odf-to-uof.sourceforge.net/overview.html

Cheers!

P.S.

You can check the announcement at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/may07/05-20UOFODFPR.mspx?rss_fdn=Press%20Releases

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Rich Text Content Control and Custom XML Part

Office 2007 ODF - UOF Support