I have a database on a website and was wondering if I could create a script to format it in xml so that the downloaded version could be displayed in a word document. That is the easy bit. The hard bit is I don't know what formatting would look like. Is there a way to see what a word document would look like in xml, using office 2007. Desmond.
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:51:10 -0700 (PDT), otuatail wrote: >I have a database on a website and was wondering if I could create a >script to format it in xml so that the downloaded version could be >displayed in a word document. That is the easy bit. The hard bit is I >don't know what formatting would look like. Is there a way to see what >a word document would look like in xml, using office 2007. There's a File -> Save as XML in Word which would do that - you could open the XML content in notepad or any other plain text editor, as a starting point (though highlighting / validating editors like Oxygen or XMLSpy would help a lot there) HTH Cheers - Neil ------------------------------------------------ Digital Media MVP : 2004-2008 http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs
otuatail wrote: > I have a database on a website and was wondering if I could create a > script to format it in xml so that the downloaded version could be > displayed in a word document. That is the easy bit. The hard bit is I > don't know what formatting would look like. Is there a way to see what > a word document would look like in xml, using office 2007. How about creating (X)HTML instead. Word will happily read that as well.
A lot depends on what you need or want. Instead of asking what you can get, it is better to determine what you need or want and then ask how to get it. "otuatail" wrote in message news:519cfc5f-d07a-40ce-b6d6-5eb2082555cb@34g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... >I have a database on a website and was wondering if I could create a > script to format it in xml so that the downloaded version could be > displayed in a word document. That is the easy bit. The hard bit is I > don't know what formatting would look like. Is there a way to see what > a word document would look like in xml, using office 2007. > > Desmond. >
