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

[Dave Shaw]

I still have my test bed set up so I tried it. I didn't get good results
at all.

I have my XML document developed in a variable named results. I run
window.open(results) and what I get is an empty browser window with my
site URL followed by an encoded form of my XML header in the browser's
address bar.

Window.open really wants a URL.

Dave


On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 20:10 -0400, Terry Riegel wrote:

> 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>  
> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >
> > window.open(variabmeName)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >                                      Troy III
> >                         progressive art enterprise
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> 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
> >>
> >> This is going to be a bit long. Please bear with me.
> >>
> >> 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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