Hello, please consider the following situation:
We have an XML schema defined and files according to that schema. In MS Office 2003 it's possible to associate a document with this schema of our own making and open/edit these. It's possible to add tags and content and have Word verify and show the document structure and validity on the fly. When the document is saved, the resulting XML contains the XML tags from our schema, just put into a namespace. In fact, the Word XML file refers to our schema. The both schemas of Word and our schema can be seen as overlayed. It's very easy to extract the XML data document from that, and Office seems to allow to make "data only" saves of the XML. Even better: In the XML SDK for Office there is a tool that accepts a Word file as input, and creates a transformation from our XML data files into Word XML documents well formatted and attaching corporate identity and stuff, which would allow to automate things with xsltproc. The question I have now. Can the same be done with ODF? My research in the XML project documentation showed that it would not. And also that Writer would not even allow such tags in a different namespace to persist a open/save cycle. Is that a shortcoming of ODF or an implementation detail? And I think I saw that OOo would not have a validating XML parser, which would be a pre-requisite. As we are planning to use this work flow, I want an idea, if there any chance or plan that oowriter could be used in the same way. Best regards, Kay Hayen -- Ist Ihr Browser Vista-kompatibel? Jetzt die neuesten Browser-Versionen downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/browser --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
