There is a XML comment tag that needs to be at the beginning of the file...
Excel files begin with: <?xml version="1.0"?> <?mso-application progid="Excel.Sheet"?> Word files begin with: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <?mso-application progid="Word.Document"?> The mso-application comment is what tells Explorer and MS Word to use it as a Word document. Leave the extension as .xml Lance -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stefan Behnel Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 1:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: xml-sig@python.org Subject: Re: [XML-SIG] [Fwd: Re: xml to word document conversion] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I found some clue in the below link. > > http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/09/07/XMLnword2003. > html?page=1 > > That article in that link is using xslt to convert normal xml to > wordprocessingML which is used by ms word 2003 and above. > I tested that example and it is working well. > But there is some problem, the out put file is again an xml. > If i open that xml file in the ms word 2003 it is opening as document. > But when i rename it as .doc and open in the word , it is showing that > xml code. I want the extension should be doc so that can open that > file directly using ms word. In the current case if it is xml file no > one will open that in word and the default option of xml editor will > be shown there. What you are trying to solve is a Microsoft problem, not an XML problem (wrong list). You can try to pipe the result through MS Word after creating it, e.g. using win32com (never used it myself). Stefan _______________________________________________ XML-SIG maillist - XML-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig _______________________________________________ XML-SIG maillist - XML-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig
