Transforming Open XML Documents to Flat OPC Format

re: Transforming Open XML Documents to Flat OPC Format

unruledboy — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:15:33 GMT

how can we tranform it directly to html file?

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John Holliday, MVP Office SharePoint Server 2007 — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:36:39 GMT

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re: Transforming Open XML Documents to Flat OPC Format

romeok — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:15:42 GMT

I think that code for chuking a string into 76 char lengths is nuts. It does give an example of how interesting the new language features are, but the example is inappropriate. Simple loop will be easier to read and take less code to write.

re: Transforming Open XML Documents to Flat OPC Format

EricWhite — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:13:44 GMT

Hi Romeok,

You're right, in this scenario, you could re-write with a loop. Because of the design of the Open XML SDK (and System.IO.Packaging underneath), we're forced into an imperative approach here. But in other scenarios, when writing pure functional transforms, writing a loop would move the code from expression context to statement context, and would mean either refactoring, having a locally impure method, or would make the code impure, which leads to a bunch of problems, including possibilities of bugs introduced by mixing imperative/declarative code, and eliminates the easy use of multiple processors. I guess that I'm in the habit of chunking using the functional approach, and used it even though in this scenario, the code wouldn't suffer from using a loop.

-Eric