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
On 1/24/19, 12:58 AM, "Larry Hayashi lhtrees(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com"
<xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> 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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