Many thanks Vinny. I will search through the Drive posts and my apologies for posting this in the wrong place. Your advice is very much appreciated and sets me in the right direction.
JFK On Monday, 18 August 2014 23:03:22 UTC+1, Vinny P wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 8:35 PM, John Kennedy <[email protected] > <javascript:>> 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] > <javascript:>> 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. > > > ----------------- > -Vinny P > Technology & Media Consultant > Chicago, IL > > App Engine Code Samples: http://www.learntogoogleit.com > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
