From: James <james@...>
Date: 2003-12-11T09:52:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby -Word2002-XML

Useko Netsumi wrote:

> I have a word 2002 document with a table in it. Is there a way of using ruby
> to extract the table(5 fields) and then parse the content of the table and
> spit it out to an XML file.

Well, the short answer is "Yes."  You can use WIN32OLE to create an 
instance of Word, then script it as you might using VBA.

   require 'win32ole'
   application = WIN32OLE.new('Word.Application')
   # Do stuff with application

See http://homepage1.nifty.com/markey/ruby/win32ole/index_e.html
(WIN32OLE is also part of Ruby 1.8)

You'll need a decent reference to the Word DOM; I believe you should be 
able to get that on msdn.microsoft.com.

Back in another life I wrote a bunch of VB/VBA that took a Word 2000 
doc, walked the object model, and spit out XML.

I have no idea how much of the Word 2000 DOM has carried over to Word 
2002.  I seem to recall that there was a collection of tables, and then 
some API2 for walking the rows and fields.

If you think it might help, the source code can be found at
http://www.jamesbritt.com/code/ProVb6XmlBookCode.zip

That zip holds a bunch of other zip files. Look at Word2Xml.zip, and 
ConvertToXml.dot for the macros that call inot VB code.

(Never thought *that* would be of any relevance here ... )

James





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