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

["Larry Hayashi lhtrees@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the help Kevin and Eliot. Those pointers helped out a lot. I did
not realize *.docx was a zip file and now that I see the contents, it's
much easier to see how to get to my destination format which will be
WordML.  I don't have to use RTF! I looked at the RelaxNG Eliot for
SimpleWPML and it looks potentially promising to help simplify things even
further. Not sure if we will be able to use Apache POI or not yet.  For
now, it looks like we will do a prototype using Python.

On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 10:57 PM Larry Hayashi <lhtrees@xxxxxxxxx> 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