Backward Compatibility for Word2003 XML

[Guest]

Hi,

Is anyone aware of a patch for word2000 that will enable it to read a WordML
XML file produced using Word 2003.

Any help appreciated

 

[Charles Kenyon]

How about using Word 2003 to produce a .doc or .htm file? Word 2000 will
read that.
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[Guest]

Hi Charles,

I am programmatically creating the XML from a database in WordML format. I
could recode to produce a HTML file instead but would like to know if there
is a Word2000 patch.


Cheers

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?QnJhbmRvbg==?=,

I am programmatically creating the XML from a database in WordML format. I
could recode to produce a HTML file instead but would like to know if there
is a Word2000 patch.

Not for this version of Word. Microsoft has announced there will be for the
file format used by Office 12 (conversion filter that can be installed for all
older versions of Word). For Word 2003 XML, though, you'll either need to save
as or transform to HTML, as you say, or to RTF.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Guest]

Hi Cindy,

Thanks for your response.

Hmmm, I chose the XML route because I thought it would be the best
technology wise but didnt think through the backward compatibility issue.
Anyhow, I am using an XSLT stylesheet to convert my XML data into Word2003
XML. Does anyone know of a way to create a stylesheet that will generate the
required HTML or do I have to hand code the required HTML. I could take the
Word2003 document, save as HTML but then how could I extract the stylesheet
that would be required to generate the document.

Any comments appreciated,
Brandon

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?QnJhbmRvbg==?=,

Does anyone know of a way to create a stylesheet that will generate the
required HTML or do I have to hand code the required HTML. I could take the
Word2003 document, save as HTML but then how could I extract the stylesheet
that would be required to generate the document.

You might try asking in the office.xml (might be under a "dev" category) or one
of the "pure" xml groups on this server. I'm not aware of any transform that
does this, but someone may have come up with something...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Brandon,

There is a MS developed XSLT for converting WordML to HTML that has been modified by one of MS's XML MVPs that you may be able to
use as a starting point.
http://www.tkachenko.com/blog/archives/000195.html

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Hi Cindy,

Thanks for your response.

Hmmm, I chose the XML route because I thought it would be the best
technology wise but didnt think through the backward compatibility issue.
Anyhow, I am using an XSLT stylesheet to convert my XML data into Word2003
XML. Does anyone know of a way to create a stylesheet that will generate the
required HTML or do I have to hand code the required HTML. I could take the
Word2003 document, save as HTML but then how could I extract the stylesheet
that would be required to generate the document.

Any comments appreciated,
Brandon >>
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[Guest]

Excellent, thanks Bob. Much appreciated.