[Javascript] Client-side Word document creation via XML/XSLT

[Terry Riegel]

Troy,

I didn't know you could do this. Does it rely on the browser detecting  
the document type? Do you have any links to this in action? Or should  
I try to generate a binary file in a JavaScript VAR?

Thanks,

Terry

http://p8ste.com

On Mar 22, 2010, at 7:43 PM, Troy III Ajnej <trojani2000 at hotmail.com>  
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>> From: dshaw256 at centurylink.net
>> To: javascript at lists.evolt.org
>> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:05:14 -0400
>> Subject: [Javascript] Client-side Word document creation via XML/XSLT
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>> This is going to be a bit long. Please bear with me.
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>> I have a package called the Data Integration Toolkit (DIT) by  
>> CorasWorks
>> in one of my SharePoint environments. I can use this to fetch data in
>> XML format from nearly anywhere, including native SharePoint content,
>> then apply XSLT transforms against it for display on SharePoint web  
>> part
>> pages. I've gotten some very nice custom displays from this. I've
>> managed to also use the DIT to apply an XSLT template with WordML  
>> markup
>> to get SharePoint list content in a nicely-formatted Word document in
>> Word 2003 XML format.
>>
>> I support another SharePoint environment that does not have the DIT
>> available. I'd like to accomplish some of these same things in that
>> environment. I figure I should be able to do all this client side.  
>> I've
>> managed to get the SharePoint list content in XML format  
>> (owssvr.dll is
>> your friend), and I've written a little Ajax code to fetch the data  
>> and
>> template, do the transform, and stuff the results into the innerHTML
>> property of a <div> for the onscreen displays. Works great; gives the
>> same results as my DIT tools.
>>
>> As to creating a Word document... Using the same data and WordML
>> transform as I have on the DIT-enabled server, I've managed to do a
>> transform and I have what I believe to be the resulting XML/WordML  
>> in a
>> variable. It's about the right length, anyway (700K bytes). The  
>> problem
>> is that I can't for the life of me figure out how to get it from
>> Javascript into Word.
>>
>> If I put this exact data in a file (document produced by doing the
>> transform offline) sitting on the server, and I open that in IE, IE
>> offers me an open-or-save dialog and I'm good; Word opens a
>> properly-formed and perfectly-formatted document. The URL is of the  
>> form
>> http://server.address/library/test.xml. Simple stuff.
>>
>> Ideally, I'd like to simulate this on the client - provide  
>> appropriate
>> headers and the contents of the javascript variable to IE to open  
>> as if
>> it were streaming from a web server. I've tried playing with the  
>> window
>> object but I'm getting nowhere; IE just tries to write the output  
>> as raw
>> text to the browser window. Not useful. I've played with  
>> ActiveXObjects
>> but to no avail; I keep getting prompts to run the ActiveX control,  
>> and
>> then Word won't open. Even if it did, I find nothing in the Word  
>> object
>> model that leads me to believe that I can provide my Javascript/ 
>> WordML
>> as if it were coming in through File->Open. Also, I'm not a fan of  
>> this
>> approach for portability reasons, but if I could make it work, I'd  
>> be a
>> good couple of steps ahead of where I am.
>>
>> Google is leading me in circles. I keep finding the same
>> not-so-very-helpful web pages.
>>
>> In a nutshell, I'd like to present HTTP headers and the transform
>> results (XML/WordML) created in the client browser to the same client
>> browser in such a way as it acts as though I'd opened it from a web
>> server.
>>
>> Can anyone give me a nudge in a useful direction?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dave Shaw
>>
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