[dba-Tech] Any of you work with XML docs in Word?

Susan Harkins ssharkins at gmail.com
Sun Nov 25 07:52:41 CST 2012


thanks Shamil -- I'll pass this along to the reader -- hopefully, he'll 
figure it out!

Susan H.

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From: "Salakhetdinov Shamil" <mcp2004 at mail.ru>
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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Any of you work with XML docs in Word?


> Hi Susan --
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> It's unclear what version of MS Word your reader uses.
> MS Word 2003 introduced so called WordProcessingML 
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordProcessingML) and MS Word 2007 - Open 
> Office XML (OOXML - 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_XML_formats) - 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338205.aspx.
>
> WordProcessingML seems to be depreciated now. When you're trying to save a 
> doc with WordProcessingML elements (in MS Word 2010) you're getting a 
> message: "The file contains custom XML elements which are no longer 
> supported by Word. If you save this file, these custom XML elements will 
> be removed permanently."
>
> I worked with OOXML MS Word and MS Excel docs - Custom XML Parts etc. 
> (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb398244.aspx). last autumn using 
> them in a C# project via Open XML SDK 2.0 
> (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5124).
> I must note that was a "hardcore stuff" for beginners (as I was that 
> time).
> Open XML SDK allows to almost completely avoid MS Word (and MS Excel) 
> Automation/Mail Merge when generating MS Word/MS Excel/MS PowerPont/... 
> documents from scratch or using templates...
>
> Try to get cleared what MS Word version and what XML implementation 
> applied to MS Word docs your reader uses.
>
> Here is a link on http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386290.aspx 
> (Walkthrough: Creating a Template By Using Content Controls). It uses C# 
> and VB.NET but it's possible to use MS Word VBA (IDE) to repeat the steps 
> from that walkthrough)...
>
> I do not know how to create MS Word documents templates using custom XML 
> parts *without using code*. If you'll find a way how to do that please 
> post the links/walk-through here..
>
> I must also note that I'm not working with MS Word XML (WordProcessingML 
> and/or Custom XML Parts and/or .... ?) on regular basis so I could be 
> missing some other options...
>
> Thank you.
>
> -- Shamil
>
> Sat 24 Nov 2012 10:28:46 от "Susan Harkins" <ssharkins at gmail.com>:
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>>From a reader -- truly have no clue what he's talking about. Anyone got 
>>any advice?
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> Susan H.
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> hi there jody,
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> at some point i was able to see a list of fields available in the XML 
> document being used to create this word document. i dont seem to be able 
> to do that anymore. i hope you understand what i mean. i have a table that 
> has the wrong data in one of the places. i want to be able to choose a 
> different field from the xml schema but i cant remember/figure out how i 
> did it before. i have the developer tab enabled but i just cant find this 
> list of tables/fields i used to be able to use.  please advise =)
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> -jon
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