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Subject: FW: (Microsoft XML Team's WebLog) : Mixing structured and unstructured content in MS Word
After reading Roger Winters and John Messing's posts on embedding structured and unstructured content in a pleading I thought I would ask Microsoft's XML team to recommend a method to add structured / machine readable content to an MS Word document that also contains unstructured / narrative content. I am forwarding Microsoft's response for your review. Brian Hickman Attorney Government Relations CT 520 Pike Street, Suite 2610 Seattle, WA 98101 206 622 4511 (tel) 206 437 1766 (mobile) brian.hickman@wolterskluwer.com -----Original Message----- From: Brian Jones (OFFICE) [mailto:brijones@exchange.microsoft.com] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 1:30 PM To: Adam Wiener; Michael Champion; Hickman, Brian; Steven Goulet; Doug Mahugh; Gray Knowlton Subject: RE: (Microsoft XML Team's WebLog) : Mixing structured and unstructured content in MS Word Hi Brian, The model in both Word 2003 and 2007 is to allow you to add your custom XML markup to a Word document so that it lives alongside the formatting and layout information. The validation occurs on your schema on its own, even though there is also WordprocessingML whenever you save the file. It's recommended that you leverage the Word structures as much as possible, and only add your own XML markup for persisting semantics that can't be captured with the Word model. I would also suggest learning more about the new content controls feature in Word 2007. This allows you to add more structure on top of your Word documents. There is a series of blog posts on the Word blog that cover this, and I just recently blogged about the post that covers mapping custom XML to content controls: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2007/01/10/the-power-of-data-v iew-separation-in-your-documents.aspx -Brian -----Original Message----- From: Adam Wiener Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 12:13 PM To: Adam Wiener; Michael Champion; brian.hickman@wolterskluwer.com; Brian Jones (OFFICE); Steven Goulet; Doug Mahugh; Gray Knowlton Subject: RE: (Microsoft XML Team's WebLog) : Mixing structured and unstructured content in MS Word Adding Doug and Gray as well... XML Bloggers on bcc... Thanks, Adam -----Original Message----- From: Adam Wiener Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 10:32 AM To: Michael Champion; brian.hickman@wolterskluwer.com; Xml Team Bloggers; Brian Jones (OFFICE); Steven Goulet Subject: RE: (Microsoft XML Team's WebLog) : Mixing structured and unstructured content in MS Word Looping in Brian Jones and Steven Goulet... Can you please take a look at Mr. Hickman's question below? Thanks, Adam -----Original Message----- From: Michael Champion Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 8:29 PM To: brian.hickman@wolterskluwer.com; Xml Team Bloggers Subject: RE: (Microsoft XML Team's WebLog) : Mixing structured and unstructured content in MS Word Thanks for your inquiry. The people on this list are not Word experts, so I'll try to find someone in the Office team who can answer. (Or, if one of you on the XML team does know the answer, feel free to chime in!) I know that you can edit documents that conform to a custom schema in Word 2003 and 2007. http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2006/01/25/517739.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/11/XMLFiles/ I don't know about mixing structured (custom schema) and unstructured (default Word schema) in one doc, however, if that is what you are asking. Please let me know if you don't hear back from someone in Office in a timely manner and I'll try to follow up. Mike Champion > -----Original Message----- > From: brian.hickman@wolterskluwer.com [mailto:brian.hickman@wolterskluwer.com] > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:42 PM > To: Xml Team Bloggers > Subject: (Microsoft XML Team's WebLog) : Mixing structured and unstructured > content in MS Word > Importance: High > > > I am a member of OASIS LegalXML's Electronic Court Filing Technical Committee > and an attorney with CT Corporation. The goal of the technical committee is > to develop standards to file documents electronically with courts. Today, > most documents produced by the legal industry are produced in MS Word. > Unfortunately, today, a human must read the document at the courthouse to > extract data from the document to populate the court's case management system. > My question is: Can we integrate content that conforms to a custom data model > into MS Word such that structured content and unstructured content can reside > in the same document? If the case management system could extract content > from an MS Word file that conformed to a customize data model (i'm thinking > along the lines of adding an MS Scheme that matched the court's requirements) > then an automated process could extract data directly from the MS Word file. > > If you look at a legal pleading you will see that some sections of the > document are structured and conform to a data model that conforms to a set of > rules expressed by the court in narrative format and some parts of the > document are almost unstructured, such a a paragraph of narrative. > > What approach would you recommend to allow attorneys to use the tool they are > familiar with, MS Word, and still embed some machine readable content within > the MS Word document? > > Thank you > > Brian Hickman > ---------------------------------- > This message was generated from a contact form at: > http://blogs.msdn.com/xmlteam/default.aspx > It was submitted by Brian Hickman (brian.hickman@wolterskluwer.com) > > Your contact information was not shared with the user.
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