Re: [xsl] From XML to Windows clipboard as styled data to be pasted into

Forgot to paste the link:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/855165/office-clipboard-format

Cheers,

E.

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On 1/24/19, 8:19 AM, "Eliot Kimber ekimber(_at_)contrext(_dot_)com" 
<xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:

    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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    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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