Folks,

I guess the title says it all...

I'd like to use the "open with transform" feature of word 2007 to
transform some (fairly simple) XML files into a nice Word document. As
such I guess I have to define an XSLT... but I am at loss as of where
to start.

Is there any good tutorial / sample around ? I know google - err
windows live search - should be my friend but doesn't seem to this
time

Any pointer welcome

Thanks and regards

--AlexT

AlexT. wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I guess the title says it all...
>
> I'd like to use the "open with transform" feature of word 2007 to
> transform some (fairly simple) XML files into a nice Word document. As
> such I guess I have to define an XSLT... but I am at loss as of where
> to start.
>
> Is there any good tutorial / sample around ? I know google - err
> windows live search - should be my friend but doesn't seem to this
> time

Unless the formatting is extremely complex, don't bother.

Write a simple XSLT to transform the document into very carefully-made
XHTML, with an embedded stylesheet if it needs it, and name the output
file to end in .doc (a barefaced lie, of course).

Word can then open this without gagging, and you can click on Save As...
and save it as a native Word file.

///Peter

> Write a simple XSLT to transform the document into very carefully-made
> XHTML, with an embedded stylesheet if it needs it, and name the output
> file to end in .doc (a barefaced lie, of course).

Sounds like a good idea...

What tool would you use to that effect (I would obviously like
something as seamless and transparent as possible) ?

Regards

--alexT

AlexT. wrote:
>> Write a simple XSLT to transform the document into very carefully-made
>> XHTML, with an embedded stylesheet if it needs it, and name the output
>> file to end in .doc (a barefaced lie, of course).
>
> Sounds like a good idea...
>
> What tool would you use to that effect (I would obviously like
> something as seamless and transparent as possible) ?

XSLT.

///Peter

> XSLT.

Hmm... Probably should rephrase my question...

what Win32 XSLT processor would you recommend ? As far as I know it's
not built-in into windows...

Regards

--alexT

AlexT. wrote:

> what Win32 XSLT processor would you recommend ? As far as I know it's
> not built-in into windows...

All supported versions of Windows have IE 6 or later and therefore have
MSXML 3 installed which supports XSLT and XPath 1.0.
So you can use MSXML 3 on Windows if you know how to use it with e.g.
VBScript or JScript or classic VB 6. See the MSXML SDK for that:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...42(VS.85).aspx
There is also a command line utility available to use MSXML from the
command line:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

If you want to use XSLT and XPath 2.0 then you currently have the choice
of three processors, Saxon 9 (http://saxon.sourceforge.net/) coming in a
Java and a .NET version, Gestalt (http://gestalt.sourceforge.net/), and
AltovaXML (http://www.altova.com/altovaxml.html).

Office 2003 furthermore installs MSXML 5 and can use it for XML parsing,
XSLT/XPath. Not sure whether Office 2007 does the same.

--

Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

Martin

Thanks a lot - wasn't aware that I had so many choices (I'm more *nix
type of guy for those matters).

--alexT