Building a Word 2003 Document with XML

[FinallyInSeattle]

I have an old product that generates a Word document using Word
Automation (tables, pictures, etc). The execution speed is quite slow
and I'm finally at the point where I can tell my customers that they
HAVE to have Office 2003.

That brings me to the potential of building a Word document using the
Word XML document schema. Has anyone done that - is this possible?
Most of the examples I see don't address building an entire document
from scratch.

Also, can anyone recommend a good reference of the subject?

Thanks in advance!

 

[gaidar]

May be the best way for you is to use Visual Stutio Tool for Office?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_vsto2003_ta/html/VSTOIntro.asp

 

[FinallyInSeattle]

Hi!

The Visual Studio Tools for Office are for products that run in-process
within Word. My product is a separate executable that uses information
that is entered in other screens and stored in a database to generate a
Word document from scratch. Also, I'm hoping to get away from Word
Automation and, instead, write out WordML (or whatever they're calling
it these days) because automation is SOOO slow.

Thanks for your response!