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J. Davalos
J. Davalos

Reputation: 95

XML and XSD (from a Word document)

At work we need to be able to create XML files that follow a XSD schema. The information that would go into that XML file would come from a Word file. How would I go about doing this programatically? I've been searching using Google but all I could find were things like converting from XML to XSD or viceversa. The final XML would be uploaded to a web site (thus the XSD we have to follow coz they will validate our XML using that schema. We have the schema). What do i need? A parser? A validation tool? A custom API?

Please help since I'm pretty new to XML (i know basic HTML). My programming skills are C and C++.

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1979

Answers (1)

kjhughes
kjhughes

Reputation: 111541

Microsoft Word documents since Word 2007 are saved in a DOCX format that follows the Office Open XML (OOXML) standard. Start by reading this Office Open XML Overview. Knowing this, you'll then be able to construct some reasonable searches to find OOXML tutorials and code samples.

Be warned that this is not an easy first project in XML. Your challenges will include having to map from an complicated layout and presentation based XML to your XML, which presumably is either structurally/semantically based or of a completely different presentation format.

Upvotes: 1

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