RE: Can I extract a XSLT from a Word DOcument?

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From: Usha Vas (UshaVas_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/25/04 

Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 08:49:03 -0700

Hi Peter,

I'm trying to do something similar and just wondered if you were able to
come up with an answer. If so, would you mine sharing.

TIA,
Usha

"PeterNZ" wrote:

> Ok, here is what we do currently. We have an application which creates
> complex contracts in Word 2000. And with complex I mean really complex as in
> “Banking Industry Complex”.
>
> We use Bookmarks for the Data and we use Special Bookmarks for Paragraphs
> i.e. combinations of CtlStart, CtlEnd and Flag Bookmarks. We also have
> repeating parts such as Signature Panels for each Customer involved. i.e. 3
> Signature Panels if we have 3 customers.
>
> The thing works quite – aehm stable – but has its problems. The biggest one
> is, the developers have to do all the Word Template Changes. The reason for
> this is, that the logic in the Doctemplates is meanwhile so complex, that we
> can’t risk that the user stuffs it.
>
> We are no on the verge of a huge re-design of our complete Department
> Software. This will also involve a re-design of the Doc Creation App. We are
> hoping (!) to get Office 2003 and use XML. Our vision is, to provide the
> users with a way to edit the documents themselves and to enter all the
> business logic we have in the documents i.e. “show this paragraph if the
> product fulfils this and that criteria” or “for each customer show a
> signature panel”. Of course our users are familiar with Word. And I we would
> also be able to come up with a kind of an editor for our Word Templates which
> will enable the user to do the editing and pull in the XML details etc. But
> how can I for example extract an XSLT from a Word Document? Because that’s
> our idea, to create the XML data in our Doc Creation App and use a Style
> *** to produce the final Word Document.
>
> So in one sentence, the user should be able to do all the usual formatting
> in Word plus adding the placeholders for the data and the App will provide
> the XML Data file. So how can we get these two things together?
>
> I am posting this because ewe thought there must be someone out there who
> does something similar.
>
> I am very keen to hear about your ideas and thoughts. And sorry for this
> long post.
>
> Cheers
>
> Peter
>

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