Re: [xsl] From XML to Windows clipboard as styled data to be pasted into a MS-Word document

["Eliot Kimber ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What is the authoring environment?

Oxygen XML has an available add-on that is a clipboard inspector--if you cut
from Word and then inspect the result that might provide a clue.

You can certainly paste HTML into Word and get a decent result but it might
not produce the complete result you want (e.g., setting appropriate styles).

I did some very quick research and this StackOverflow message suggests that
Office's clipboard format is actually zipped up Office XML, in which case it
wouldn't be too hard to generate with XSLT and Java.

My Wordinator project (wordinator.org) provides a Java-and-XSLT-based
framework for generating DOCX from XML using the Apache POI library
underneath. POI generates the actual DOCX file, which is a zip of Office
OpenXML, so it might not be too hard to adapt to generating what you'd want on
the clipboard (or it might be easier to just generate the Office Open XML
directly if your use case is pretty focused).

Cheers,

E.
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Eliot Kimber
http://contrext.com


o;?On 1/24/19, 12:58 AM, "Larry Hayashi lhtrees@xxxxxxxxx"
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

    I am wondering if anyone has any experience in transforming an XML
document into a format that could be pasted from the Windows clipboard into a
Word document. The Word document will have a particular doc template with
named styles and the transformed data will need to utilize those styles (set
in a preferences interface in a custom application). I want to use XSL on the
XML source and I suspect that I need to generate Rich Text Format, but maybe
there is a less verbose format than RTF, perhaps some XML doc format for
pasting styled/formatted text into Word??
    The scenario would be something like this:

    Linguistic application has interlinear text with sentences. User selects
and copies one interlinear text sentence. On copy, the application uses an
internal XML version of the selected text which would be transformed into RTF
or equivalent. User pastes beautifully formatted example into their Word
document with correct auto numbering styles, etc.

    Thanks for any advice.

    Larry


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