A couple of products that might it easier to use XML are: http://www.xpertdoc.com
http://www.windwardreports.com/ Regards Brian -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Iannantuoni Sent: Sunday, 21 March 2010 7:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dataperf] DataPerfect & MS Word Mail Merge Hi Brian, Thanks for your advice and link; I have also found your series of article on "Merging DP Reports into MS Word" from May 2008 and they look interesting. Am I being naive in thinking I could add some XML codes in the first page of my existing DP reports and then simply surround other parts of the reports with appropriate <marker> & </marker> ? Michael On 20/03/2010 23:15, Brian Hancock wrote: > Hi Michael, > > I like to use XML from DP, it gives so much flexibility and DP writes XML so > very well. > > Unfortunately Word (at least Word 2003 - the latest I have used) does not > have the ability to directly use XML as a data source (heaven knows why, > perhaps they think it would put people too much into an open source thinking > or something). But there are ways. > > Personally I prefer to use XML as the data source and to create a Word XSLT > as the form document. You can then start to approach some of the flexibility > of WordPerfect's merge using the rich capabilities of XPath and XSLT. In > September 2008 I posted a series of articles of how to do this, I can post > them again if you wish to go this way. This has a relatively steep learning > curve but the results are great, and you can create Word documents without > needing Word, which makes it good for server side automation, and web > enabled DP applications. > > Alternatively I found an article which provides a program to perform a merge > between a Word Template and a simple XML source. > http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/i-n/internet/xml/article.php/c3423 Its a very > simple method. > > Another method is to import the XML into Word and then use the resulting > table as a merge source. > > Then of course you could just use a tab delimited or comma delimited file > and merge directly using that, but my merges have always been too complex > for that to work well. > > Regards > Brian > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Iannantuoni > Sent: Saturday, 20 March 2010 9:29 PM > To: DataPerfect Users Discussion Group > Subject: [Dataperf] DataPerfect& MS Word Mail Merge > > I have a DataPerfect database that is used, for our village magazine, to > keep track of advertisers, send out renewal reminders, invoices& > receipts etc by producing, from reports, WordPerfect merge data files > which are then merged in form letters within WordPerfect X3. > > This works fine and has done for many years, however because we are > moving to another part of the country soon, I have to hand over this > database to someone else who uses MS Word. Can anyone give me some > advice and guidance please on how to produce MS Word merge data files > from DataPerfect reports? > > TIA > > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > > _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
