XML Data from Word Forms

[Andy]

I am trying to do a project for my kid's lttle league and I want to use word forms to send data via xml. Can i use word 2000 to create a form which will send XML data? The other parent, who is more technical than I, but I know word forms very well. He says if i could send data via xml from the forms which other parents enter information into that it would be easily manipulated. I thank you for your time and help ahead of time.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Hi Andy,

Fellow MVP Bill Coan has written an in depth article on this which
appears/will appear in Woody's Office Watch. I am not sure that it is
applicable to Word 2000.

If the forms are protected documents, it is possible to save them in a "Save
data only for forms" mode by setting that option under Tools>Options>Save,
or to use a batch processing macro to extract all of the information out of
the formfields in each document if they are all stored in a separate
folder.

See the article "How to Find & ReplaceAll on a Batch of Documents in the
Same Folder" at:

http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MacrosVBA/BatchFR.htm

for some pointers.

Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the
benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded
directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis.

Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

I am trying to do a project for my kid's lttle league and I want to use

word forms to send data via xml. Can i use word 2000 to create a form which
will send XML data? The other parent, who is more technical than I, but I
know word forms very well. He says if i could send data via xml from the
forms which other parents enter information into that it would be easily
manipulated. I thank you for your time and help ahead of time.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?QW5keQ==?=,

Since I do know about Word 2003 and XML, I can confirm what Doug has told you.
There is NO XML support in any version prior to Word 2003.

But forms can be saved as "Data only". This generates a comma-delimted text file -
which the "technical person" should know about, as it's the "old-fashioned"
equivalent of XML. This means comma-delmited text files can be manipulated pretty
much the same as XML for the purpose you describe. Or imported directly into an
Excel sheet or a database. (Or can even be transformed to an XML format, if that's
what the technical person wants.)

I am trying to do a project for my kid's lttle league and I want to use word

forms to send data via xml. Can i use word 2000 to create a form which will send
XML data? The other parent, who is more technical than I, but I know word forms
very well. He says if i could send data via xml from the forms which other parents
enter information into that it would be easily manipulated. I thank you for your
time and help ahead of time.
Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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