[thelist] programming question

[Scott Dexter]

Also check out Windows Scripting Host (WSH) --it's kinda like perl,
but built in, and you'll have programatic access to Word as an
ActiveX object, and you can manipulate the document from there
(saving as XML, for instance). While VBA (Visual Basic for
Applications) will work, you'd have to have Word open to use. WSH is
executed from the command line line any other program.

Are you looking to do this in a batch mode, or whut?

Scott
--- Ken Schaefer <ken at adOpenStatic.com> wrote:
> Word has VBA built in, so you can automate it. I would suggest that
> you then
> use the MS XML parser tools to build your XML.
> 
> However, if you have Word 2003, there is an option to save the
> document as
> XML (and to apply an XSLT tranform). So, you could either do this
> manually
> (open each document up, and resave), or use the VBA automation
> options to
> automatically open each document, and resave.
> 
> Cheers
> Ken
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> From: "Diane Soini" <dianesoini at earthlink.net>
> Subject: [thelist] programming question
> 
> 
> : I'm afraid to ask this, but I need to write some kind of script
> to read
> : a Word doc (I'll require people to save it as text) and transform
> the
> : text to xml. But a web server will not be involved. This will
> need to
> : be done on a Windows network drive. What do I write the script
> in? It
> : should be easy for people to use. Not a command line program, if
> : possible. My biggest ignorance is that I don't know much about
> Windows.
> : I usually do UNIX and Mac, and on these I'm just a hack. Can I
> use
> : perl? Should I make a java applet? Or maybe I should just find a
> web
> : server at the company I could use and do it that way? Probably
> easier
> : for me.
> :
> : Diane
> :
> : ***
> : Don't be afraid to try something new. An amateur built the ark.
> : Professionals built the Titanic. -unknown
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