Hi Brian, Thank you so much for your kind offer; I will sort something out and send it too you; I only have a small test XML file at present but can also include a WordPerfect form file to show you what I am trying to achieve in Word.
Sine the person I am handing over the system to is such a novice, what I really want him to have to do is to simply run a DP report from an opening menu to produce a file that Word can use as a merge data file into a pre-formatted form file. ie run report from DP menu, open Word form file and perform the merge. It may be after Easter before I can send you anything; my wife's birthday falls on Easter Sunday this year! Thanks again, Michael On 03/04/2010 17:29, Brian Hancock wrote: > Hi Michael, > > If you like, why not zip me up what you have, eg the XML data, any XML/XSLT > files you might have created and/or the original Word document, and send it > to my email [email protected] > > I will let you know if you are on the right track... > > Bye > Brian > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Iannantuoni > Sent: Saturday, 3 April 2010 3:24 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Dataperf] DataPerfect& MS Word Mail Merge > > Hi Brian, > > Sorry to be a pain but, although I can generate kosher XML files, I am > struggling with the XSLT bit. > > Any further help would be greatly appreciated. > > Regards, > > Michael > > > >>> 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. >>> > _______________________________________________ > 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
