Re: [docbook] OOXML

[Nic Gibson <nicg@corbas.net>]

On 21 Jan 2010, at 21:20, Jirka Kosek wrote:

> Nic Gibson wrote:
> 
>> That's the bit we are trying to avoid - the application (generated via heavily customised 
>> MS Word templates)  uses a lot of Office 2007 specific features. It may be that
>> we have to go that way though.
> 
> 2003 and 2007 is not that different. Advantage of 2003 XML format is
> that it is raw XML. MSO 2007 uses OOXML which has XML code packaged
> inside ZIP. So you have to unzip file first or use jar: URI scheme to
> access content of document from XSLT.
> 

Hi Jirka

Sorry - I wasn't clear. The specific features we're using are Word 2007 user interface features. 
Saving to the native format is just simpler because much of the customisation is carried around in the template
(custom ribbons, building blocks, that kind of stuff - not really my speciality - I'm the XML guy).

Given Steve's comments about the differences between the actual xml formats (or lack of them), 
I think I might be able to work  out a decent solution. Especially as my role here is extraction of 
meaningful content from the XML.

cheers

nic

(off to play with the 2003 stylesheets)



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