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[Woodsy]

I have several reports that are arranged into four sections, (s1, s2, s3,
s4). I am looking for a way to be able to create a document that pulls the
text/charts from each section on each report. I was thinking that XML smart
tagging would be what I would need to do, but I don't know how to create an
application or a "transform" that would pull the data. Ideally, I would want
to be able to create an ad hoc document that would pull and arrange all the
s1 sections from each report, and arrange them into one fluid report; or be
able to pull data from s1 and s3 and do the same thing. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Scott

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?V29vZHN5?=,

I have several reports that are arranged into four sections, (s1, s2, s3,
s4). I am looking for a way to be able to create a document that pulls the
text/charts from each section on each report. I was thinking that XML smart
tagging would be what I would need to do, but I don't know how to create an
application or a "transform" that would pull the data. Ideally, I would want
to be able to create an ad hoc document that would pull and arrange all the
s1 sections from each report, and arrange them into one fluid report; or be
able to pull data from s1 and s3 and do the same thing.

Assuming you have Word 2003, and you'd save the documents as XML, then yes, this
should be a valid approach. I should warn you, however, that in WordML a
"section" doesn't surround or contain the text. The section break information is
stored in the last paragraph mark of a section. So you need to be careful to
pick up everything up to the w:sectPr element PLUS the w in which it is
contained.

There is a wx:sect element that denotes a section, however, it might also appear
under other circumstances.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Woodsy]

Thanks for the reply. I guess I'm still confused about how to actually go
about making this happen. Would I use traditional XML tagging, for example,

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<report>
<initative>INITATIVE1</initiative>
<s1>text</s1>
<s2>text</s2>
<s3>text</s3>
<s4>text</s4>
</report>

And then write a transform, or some kind of tool that would query each
report for 'initiative' and 's1' and so on, and then display them in turn?
I'm very new to the XML/WordML language.