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Search and replace my custom tags in WordML??
Hi,
I need to open a wordml document and search/replace some custom tags. The problem is, that when I open a wordml doc, the tags are messed up. My text look likes this "Dear @customername@, ....", but when I open the wordml doc, it can look like this.... w:rPrDear w:b/@/w:rPrw:tcustomername/w:t@/w:r or w:rPrDear w:b//w:rPr@w:tcustomername@/w:t/w:r etc. I want to keep the @ and unsername together like this... w:rPrDear w:b//w:rPrw:t@customername@/w:t/w:r Is that possible??? Thanks! Mojo |
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Search and replace my custom tags in WordML??
Hi M,
I need to open a wordml document and search/replace some custom tags. The problem is, that when I open a wordml doc, the tags are messed up. My text look likes this "Dear @customername@, ....", but when I open the wordml doc, it can look like this.... w:rPrDear w:b/@/w:rPrw:tcustomername/w:t@/w:r or w:rPrDear w:b//w:rPr@w:tcustomername@/w:t/w:r etc. I want to keep the @ and unsername together like this... w:rPrDear w:b//w:rPrw:t@customername@/w:t/w:r Is that possible??? I very much doubt that the WordML you're getting when you save a Word 2003 document looks like the samples you're showing us above. "Dear " would certainly have to be within w:t tags; the @ as well. I'm guessing that you may be formatting the customername characters differently than the surrounding @? That would break up the text run... Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Search and replace my custom tags in WordML??
Hi Cindy,
My point was just to show that the '@' signs wasn't always together with the customername. ) Let's say I want to load the xml file into Notepad and do a search and replace (I don't want to use word to do the search and replace ... it will be done on a computer that does not have word installed). How can I make my own "tags" that will not be messed up by wordml-tags? I want my user to create a word doc, type in text and add variables like @customername@. Then my own .net application must open the xml file and do a search and replace. Therefore the @customername@ must stick together. Hope you understand what I mean. This is a BIG problem for me. ( Thanks! Mojo Cindy M -WordMVP- skrev: Hi M, I need to open a wordml document and search/replace some custom tags. The problem is, that when I open a wordml doc, the tags are messed up. My text look likes this "Dear @customername@, ....", but when I open the wordml doc, it can look like this.... w:rPrDear w:b/@/w:rPrw:tcustomername/w:t@/w:r or w:rPrDear w:b//w:rPr@w:tcustomername@/w:t/w:r etc. I want to keep the @ and unsername together like this... w:rPrDear w:b//w:rPrw:t@customername@/w:t/w:r Is that possible??? I very much doubt that the WordML you're getting when you save a Word 2003 document looks like the samples you're showing us above. "Dear " would certainly have to be within w:t tags; the @ as well. I'm guessing that you may be formatting the customername characters differently than the surrounding @? That would break up the text run... Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Search and replace my custom tags in WordML??
Hi, I dont know, If I understand you correctly. Whats about your own
namespace concerning the parameters you signed as @parameter@? Like param xmlns="myNamespace"value/param. -- MfG EP Entwicklung - Beratung - Training (www.dr-e-pfeifer.net) (Microsoft Certified Application Developer) neu: MS Office 2003 - Das Entwicklerbuch (ISBN 3-86063-688-X) |
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Search and replace my custom tags in WordML??
Hi Mojo,
But you see, on my machine the @ signs aren't separated from the rest of the text. Unless I format them differently or use Insert/Symbol. So it would be important for you to show us EXACTLY what the problem is that you're encountering - the WordML you're struggling with. My point was just to show that the '@' signs wasn't always together with the customername. ) Let's say I want to load the xml file into Notepad and do a search and replace (I don't want to use word to do the search and replace ... it will be done on a computer that does not have word installed). How can I make my own "tags" that will not be messed up by wordml-tags? I want my user to create a word doc, type in text and add variables like @customername@. Then my own .net application must open the xml file and do a search and replace. Therefore the @customername@ must stick together. Hope you understand what I mean. This is a BIG problem for me. ( Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Search and replace my custom tags in WordML??
Hi Cindy,
I want my user to write a "template" in word and save it as xml. This template will later be used for our own mailmerge system. Therefore if my users open a new document and enters the field @customoername@, the wordml will look like this... ....ww:rw:t@customername@/w:t/w:r.... This is very easy to open the xml file in our .net-crm application and do a search/replace on the variable @customername@. But if the user wants to make it bold and by mistake forgets to highlight the last @, the wordml will look like this... w:rPrw:b//w:rPrw:t@customername/w:t/w:rw:rw:t@/w:t Then I will not be able to from my .net-crm application to open the word as a tectfile and do a search/replace on the @customername@, because it's now called... @customername/w:t/w:rw:rw:t@ I would like my users to be able to enter a fieldname like @customernam@ in word and no matter what formatting they do on the field, the @customername@ must be intact. Hope you get what I mean. ) Thanks for still trying to help me out here!! Mojo Cindy M -WordMVP- skrev: Hi Mojo, But you see, on my machine the @ signs aren't separated from the rest of the text. Unless I format them differently or use Insert/Symbol. So it would be important for you to show us EXACTLY what the problem is that you're encountering - the WordML you're struggling with. My point was just to show that the '@' signs wasn't always together with the customername. ) Let's say I want to load the xml file into Notepad and do a search and replace (I don't want to use word to do the search and replace ... it will be done on a computer that does not have word installed). How can I make my own "tags" that will not be messed up by wordml-tags? I want my user to create a word doc, type in text and add variables like @customername@. Then my own .net application must open the xml file and do a search and replace. Therefore the @customername@ must stick together. Hope you understand what I mean. This is a BIG problem for me. ( Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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I don't believe there is any way you can force Word to fix this at the point
when you save the document, unless you know how to write a transform that could do it (I don't), particularly... I would like my users to be able to enter a fieldname like @customernam@ in word and no matter what formatting they do on the field, the @customername@ must be intact. ....when you want that much flexibility. What you're implying is that there could be any number of formatting tags within the @customername@ "tag". Nor is it going to be simple even to identify what is and what is not a tag, partly because a character such as "@" is quite likely to be used in other ways in a document (especially in e-mail addresses), and partly because the user may accidentally omit an "@". Personally I would consider two approaches to solving this: a. either provide a macro that the user either invokes or is invoked automatically when the document is closed, or can be run as a check after closing, to go through the document looking for @tag@ tags, reporting on any "solitary" "@" characters it can find, then applying (or more likely, removing) consistent formatting, in a way that you have determined by experiment leaves you with w:t@tag@/w:t b. or postprocess the resulting XML, using any appropriate language, in a three-stage process: - make a copy of the XML and strip all XML tags so that the user-defined @tag@ tags are reconstituted - perform much the same checking for "solitary" "@" chaaracters as in (a) and flag any stuff you cannot recognise - if all is OK, reprocess the original XML by identifying the start and end of @tag@ tags and successively swapping the positions of XML tags and plain text until the @tag@ is reconsituted. If (a) is feasible, it looks an awful lot simpler to me than (b). I also suspect it might be a whole lot more reliable if you didn't use a common character such as "@" as your tag marker, or doubled it up to @@. Personally I like "¬" (who on earth uses that?), but that's primarily because it's available on a UK keyboard. Of course th logical problem remains whatever you use. Peter Jamieson "M O J O" wrote in message ... Hi Cindy, I want my user to write a "template" in word and save it as xml. This template will later be used for our own mailmerge system. Therefore if my users open a new document and enters the field @customoername@, the wordml will look like this... ...ww:rw:t@customername@/w:t/w:r.... This is very easy to open the xml file in our .net-crm application and do a search/replace on the variable @customername@. But if the user wants to make it bold and by mistake forgets to highlight the last @, the wordml will look like this... w:rPrw:b//w:rPrw:t@customername/w:t/w:rw:rw:t@/w:t Then I will not be able to from my .net-crm application to open the word as a tectfile and do a search/replace on the @customername@, because it's now called... @customername/w:t/w:rw:rw:t@ I would like my users to be able to enter a fieldname like @customernam@ in word and no matter what formatting they do on the field, the @customername@ must be intact. Hope you get what I mean. ) Thanks for still trying to help me out here!! Mojo Cindy M -WordMVP- skrev: Hi Mojo, But you see, on my machine the @ signs aren't separated from the rest of the text. Unless I format them differently or use Insert/Symbol. So it would be important for you to show us EXACTLY what the problem is that you're encountering - the WordML you're struggling with. My point was just to show that the '@' signs wasn't always together with the customername. ) Let's say I want to load the xml file into Notepad and do a search and replace (I don't want to use word to do the search and replace ... it will be done on a computer that does not have word installed). How can I make my own "tags" that will not be messed up by wordml-tags? I want my user to create a word doc, type in text and add variables like @customername@. Then my own .net application must open the xml file and do a search and replace. Therefore the @customername@ must stick together. Hope you understand what I mean. This is a BIG problem for me. ( Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Search and replace my custom tags in WordML??
Hi Mojo,
I get what you mean. And I agree with Peter's analysis. The only additional thought I have is that it should be possible to use XPath rather than a text search. XPath should let you extend what's picked up until you hit the "end symbol", and to pick up only the t tag's contents. As long as you're using XML, make the most of it and use the tools that are available for working with it :-) XML wasn't designed to be worked with in "text editor"... I want my user to write a "template" in word and save it as xml. This template will later be used for our own mailmerge system. Therefore if my users open a new document and enters the field @customoername@, the wordml will look like this... ....ww:rw:t@customername@/w:t/w:r.... This is very easy to open the xml file in our .net-crm application and do a search/replace on the variable @customername@. But if the user wants to make it bold and by mistake forgets to highlight the last @, the wordml will look like this... w:rPrw:b//w:rPrw:t@customername/w:t/w:rw:rw:t@/w:t Then I will not be able to from my .net-crm application to open the word as a tectfile and do a search/replace on the @customername@, because it's now called... @customername/w:t/w:rw:rw:t@ I would like my users to be able to enter a fieldname like @customernam@ in word and no matter what formatting they do on the field, the @customername@ must be intact. Hope you get what I mean. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Hi Peter and Cindy,
Thank you both for the elaborating answers. I will try to parse the file as an xml file. Thanks again!! Mojo M O J O skrev: Hi Cindy, I want my user to write a "template" in word and save it as xml. This template will later be used for our own mailmerge system. Therefore if my users open a new document and enters the field @customoername@, the wordml will look like this... ...ww:rw:t@customername@/w:t/w:r.... This is very easy to open the xml file in our .net-crm application and do a search/replace on the variable @customername@. But if the user wants to make it bold and by mistake forgets to highlight the last @, the wordml will look like this... w:rPrw:b//w:rPrw:t@customername/w:t/w:rw:rw:t@/w:t Then I will not be able to from my .net-crm application to open the word as a tectfile and do a search/replace on the @customername@, because it's now called... @customername/w:t/w:rw:rw:t@ I would like my users to be able to enter a fieldname like @customernam@ in word and no matter what formatting they do on the field, the @customername@ must be intact. Hope you get what I mean. ) Thanks for still trying to help me out here!! Mojo Cindy M -WordMVP- skrev: Hi Mojo, But you see, on my machine the @ signs aren't separated from the rest of the text. Unless I format them differently or use Insert/Symbol. So it would be important for you to show us EXACTLY what the problem is that you're encountering - the WordML you're struggling with. My point was just to show that the '@' signs wasn't always together with the customername. ) Let's say I want to load the xml file into Notepad and do a search and replace (I don't want to use word to do the search and replace ... it will be done on a computer that does not have word installed). How can I make my own "tags" that will not be messed up by wordml-tags? I want my user to create a word doc, type in text and add variables like @customername@. Then my own .net application must open the xml file and do a search and replace. Therefore the @customername@ must stick together. Hope you understand what I mean. This is a BIG problem for me. ( Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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