On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 8:35 PM, John Kennedy <[email protected]> wrote:

> My goal is to do the following:
> Use Google Drive to organize text files (Stories) for publication to both
> web and print.
> Now I need to convert the Google Doc to XML preferably add additional XML
> Tags (such as publish_date, section, author)
>


Google Docs are already in XML.

Google Docs will allow you to download files in OpenOffice format (the
technical term being: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text ) or as an MS
Word document (termed
as: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document ).
These may look like word processing documents, but they're actually ZIP
archives containing XML documents. You can confirm this by renaming a DOCX
file into a ZIP file, then opening it with any unzip application. See here
for further info:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/asiatech/archive/2012/03/28/office-documents-will-be-recognized-as-zip-file-when-downloading-from-ie.aspx

Most of the tags you want, such as date, author, etc will already be
embedded. But if you want to add in new XML tags or do special
postprocessing, that is going to require a lot of special programming.
You're better off asking the folks responsible for maintaining Google Drive
( https://developers.google.com/drive/support ) or posting a thread on
their G+ community:
https://plus.google.com/communities/107264319205603895037 . This is a forum
for App Engine, which is a different service than Google Docs/Drive.


On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 8:35 PM, John Kennedy <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am not a developer and have very little knowledge of any coding - paper
> and ink - but have a lot a patience and know what I want to achieve.
>


You may want to hire a developer or make a developer friend. This sounds
like a lot of work, especially for a person new to the programming world.


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-Vinny P
Technology & Media Consultant
Chicago, IL

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