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Subject: RE: [legalxml-courtfiling] FW: (Microsoft XML Team's WebLog) : Mixing structured and unstructured content in MS Word
An alternative is Adobe's XFA format which enables XML schema's to generate PDF layout documents. It is ideal for form-based documents. This likely will be the document format structure that eNotary will use for the layout of its form-based notary certificates, jurats and acknowledgements. > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [legalxml-courtfiling] FW: (Microsoft XML Team's WebLog) : > Mixing structured and unstructured content in MS Word > From: "Hickman, Brian" <Brian.Hickman@wolterskluwer.com> > Date: Fri, January 12, 2007 4:53 pm > To: <legalxml-courtfiling@lists.oasis-open.org>, "O'Brien,Robert" > <Robert.OBrien@cas-satj.gc.ca> > > After reading Roger Winters and John Messing's posts on embedding > structured and unstructured content in a pleading I thought I would ask > Microsoft's XML team to recommend a method to add structured / machine > readable content to an MS Word document that also contains unstructured > / narrative content. > > I am forwarding Microsoft's response for your review. > > Brian Hickman > Attorney > Government Relations > CT > > > 520 Pike Street, Suite 2610 > Seattle, WA 98101 > 206 622 4511 (tel) > 206 437 1766 (mobile) > brian.hickman@wolterskluwer.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Jones (OFFICE) [mailto:brijones@exchange.microsoft.com] > Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 1:30 PM > To: Adam Wiener; Michael Champion; Hickman, Brian; Steven Goulet; Doug > Mahugh; Gray Knowlton > Subject: RE: (Microsoft XML Team's WebLog) : Mixing structured and > unstructured content in MS Word > > Hi Brian, > The model in both Word 2003 and 2007 is to allow you to add your custom > XML markup to a Word document so that it lives alongside the formatting > and layout information. > The validation occurs on your schema on its own, even though there is > also WordprocessingML whenever you save the file. > > It's recommended that you leverage the Word structures as much as > possible, and only add your own XML markup for persisting semantics that > can't be captured with the Word model. > I would also suggest learning more about the new content controls > feature in Word 2007. This allows you to add more structure on top of > your Word documents. There is a series of blog posts on the Word blog > that cover this, and I just recently blogged about the post that covers > mapping custom XML to content controls: > http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2007/01/10/the-power-of-data-v > iew-separation-in-your-documents.aspx > > > -Brian > > -----Original Message----- > From: Adam Wiener > Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 12:13 PM > To: Adam Wiener; Michael Champion; brian.hickman@wolterskluwer.com; > Brian Jones (OFFICE); Steven Goulet; Doug Mahugh; Gray Knowlton > Subject: RE: (Microsoft XML Team's WebLog) : Mixing structured and > unstructured content in MS Word > > Adding Doug and Gray as well... XML Bloggers on bcc... > > Thanks, > Adam > > -----Original Message----- > From: Adam Wiener > Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 10:32 AM > To: Michael Champion; brian.hickman@wolterskluwer.com; Xml Team > Bloggers; Brian Jones (OFFICE); Steven Goulet > Subject: RE: (Microsoft XML Team's WebLog) : Mixing structured and > unstructured content in MS Word > > Looping in Brian Jones and Steven Goulet... > > Can you please take a look at Mr. Hickman's question below? > > Thanks, > Adam > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Champion > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 8:29 PM > To: brian.hickman@wolterskluwer.com; Xml Team Bloggers > Subject: RE: (Microsoft XML Team's WebLog) : Mixing structured and > unstructured content in MS Word > > Thanks for your inquiry. The people on this list are not Word experts, > so I'll try to find someone in the Office team who can answer. (Or, if > one of you on the XML team does know the answer, feel free to chime in!) > > I know that you can edit documents that conform to a custom schema in > Word 2003 and 2007. > http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2006/01/25/517739.aspx > http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/11/XMLFiles/ > > I don't know about mixing structured (custom schema) and unstructured > (default Word schema) in one doc, however, if that is what you are > asking. Please let me know if you don't hear back from someone in > Office in a timely manner and I'll try to follow up. > > Mike Champion > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: brian.hickman@wolterskluwer.com > [mailto:brian.hickman@wolterskluwer.com] > > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:42 PM > > To: Xml Team Bloggers > > Subject: (Microsoft XML Team's WebLog) : Mixing structured and > unstructured > > content in MS Word > > Importance: High > > > > > > I am a member of OASIS LegalXML's Electronic Court Filing Technical > Committee > > and an attorney with CT Corporation. The goal of the technical > committee is > > to develop standards to file documents electronically with courts. > Today, > > most documents produced by the legal industry are produced in MS Word. > > Unfortunately, today, a human must read the document at the courthouse > to > > extract data from the document to populate the court's case management > system. > > My question is: Can we integrate content that conforms to a custom > data model > > into MS Word such that structured content and unstructured content can > reside > > in the same document? If the case management system could extract > content > > from an MS Word file that conformed to a customize data model (i'm > thinking > > along the lines of adding an MS Scheme that matched the court's > requirements) > > then an automated process could extract data directly from the MS Word > file. > > > > If you look at a legal pleading you will see that some sections of the > > document are structured and conform to a data model that conforms to a > set of > > rules expressed by the court in narrative format and some parts of the > > document are almost unstructured, such a a paragraph of narrative. > > > > What approach would you recommend to allow attorneys to use the tool > they are > > familiar with, MS Word, and still embed some machine readable content > within > > the MS Word document? > > > > Thank you > > > > Brian Hickman > > ---------------------------------- > > This message was generated from a contact form at: > > http://blogs.msdn.com/xmlteam/default.aspx > > It was submitted by Brian Hickman (brian.hickman@wolterskluwer.com) > > > > Your contact information was not shared with the user.
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