Tero, thanks for your great tips! I have been just trying to generate multi column with XSLT. But as you mentioned Word is not a cooperative guy. :)
I have already found some tools to design WordML templates but none of them works as I expected. What I do is creating my target document in Word and saving as XML and trying to understand the code. My main problem is dynamic continuous content for multi columns. There would be some easy way to have them. :) Tero Pikala wrote: > Hi > > I've written some pieces of code that produce WordML. I did find > couple of resources with Google but nothing really good. > > Some things I learned: > > - Most important: Make sure you have good spec/example documents/etc > what you are trying to do. Include all formatting what you are trying > to support. > - WordML can be tricky. Don't think it's HTML, it's XML > representation of Word document. > - If you have HTML content you need to use try really hard to use > XSTL, it will work better > - Pretty print 2 documents generated with Word (I used XMLSpy) and > look at the differences (I used WinMerge). This is best way to learn > how it works. > - Numbered lists are really strange. You need to define them with > unique ids, map them to other ids and use those ids. If you don't > they keep on using same series for next list. > - Images are relatively easy, just Base64 image data and put it into > document with some 10-20 other tags that are easy to generate with Word. > - When Word complains about errors just open file with XML editor and > check it's valid. Word doesn't try to help you with error so it can > be tricky - just keep on removing stuff from document until it works. > > > I hope this helps > > Tero Pikala > > ps. say hi to Michael :) > > > > On Feb 28, 2007, at 8:25 PM, OÃuz Demirkapñ wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to figure out some basic techniques with WordML to >> integrate >> CF and Word. Are there anybody who has experience with WordML? >> >> Any resource to share? Any other suggestion to look at for CF & Word >> integration? >> >> TIA! >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OÄuz Demirkapı TeraTech Inc. | Senior Developer 405 East Gude Dr Suite 207, Rockville, MD 20850, USA Voice: +1 (301) 424-3903 ext 111 | Fax: +1 (301) 762-8185 Web: http://www.teratech.com | E-mail: oguz.demirkapi <AT> teratech.com Winner in CFDJ awards Best Consulting. Member Team Fusebox. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:271021 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
