Web Based Word/DOC File Edit and Save on Server Database

[Shravan]

Hi,

Has anyone tried modifying a DOC file at client side using browser and
components(may be activex, editors or even Microsoft Word) which is in
database in XML format and put the modified file back into the datbase by
saving it as XML file. The editing has to be done at the client side.

Users of our web application should have the ability to view and modify Word
documents that reside on our web server. I.e. They will click on a link on a
web page that will invoke Word and pull the document from the server. I want
them to be able to edit the document and hit save - so that the document
goes back to the web server. Is this possible?

Any solutions for this, or any tools available to achive this.

Regards
shravan

 

[Alvin Bruney]

I've seen this type of simple exercise deteriorate into a free for all bug
fest. From hard experience, I suggest you write a solid application which
can deal with concurrency. Multiple users to the same doc will cause
problems, lost data, overwritten data, corrupt data, blow ups and all other
kinds of subtleties.

my 2pence