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Automatic formatting of XML documents using styles (Word 2007)
Is there a way to automatically associate formatting styles to XML elements?
In other words, When an XML document (conforming to a certain schema) is opened, formatting styles are applied according to predefined mapping for the schema: i.e., - all para elements render using "Normal" style - all title elements render using "Heading 1" style (e.g., bold, Arial, 12pt) - all figuretitles render using "Figure Title" style (e.g., centered, TNS, 10pt) - , etc... In Word 2007 B2TR, it seems styles can only be applied manually to individual elements. This is a bit impractical and is likely to lead to formatting inconsistency across large sets of documents and even within the same document. One huge benefit of structured authoring is of course to enable constistent formatting of enterprise documents by separating content from formatting; in effect, freeing authors from formatting tasks and letting formatting be applied automatically based on element names, attributes and context. I think it's a "must" functionality that seems to be missing for publishing companies looking to consider Word 2007 as an alternative to more specialized XML Publishing tool. Will the functionality to map styles to elements and save the mapping as a configuration that can be reused for other XML documents conforming to the same schema be present in the final version of Word 2007? If not, can you suggest a workaround? Thanks, Lyteck Lynhiavu New York, NY ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Automatic formatting of XML documents using styles (Word 2007)
There is a newsgroup dedicated to XML: microsoft.public.office.xml
If you don't get an answer here, you might want to post there. Also, for everything concerning the new XML formats themselves, this is the best resource: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/ He has links to the current Ecma spec as well as a forum dedicated to OpenXML. Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP] -------------- http://pschmid.net *** Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR): http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43 *** Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote *** Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed "Lyteck" wrote in message : Is there a way to automatically associate formatting styles to XML elements? In other words, When an XML document (conforming to a certain schema) is opened, formatting styles are applied according to predefined mapping for the schema: i.e., - all para elements render using "Normal" style - all title elements render using "Heading 1" style (e.g., bold, Arial, 12pt) - all figuretitles render using "Figure Title" style (e.g., centered, TNS, 10pt) - , etc... In Word 2007 B2TR, it seems styles can only be applied manually to individual elements. This is a bit impractical and is likely to lead to formatting inconsistency across large sets of documents and even within the same document. One huge benefit of structured authoring is of course to enable constistent formatting of enterprise documents by separating content from formatting; in effect, freeing authors from formatting tasks and letting formatting be applied automatically based on element names, attributes and context. I think it's a "must" functionality that seems to be missing for publishing companies looking to consider Word 2007 as an alternative to more specialized XML Publishing tool. Will the functionality to map styles to elements and save the mapping as a configuration that can be reused for other XML documents conforming to the same schema be present in the final version of Word 2007? If not, can you suggest a workaround? Thanks, Lyteck Lynhiavu New York, NY ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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