Feasibility of copying the tempalte definitions to document.

Question

Hi,

How feasible it is to copy the template definitions to a to an existing docx file and what are the things to be aware of?

Related posts i have already entered:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/oxmlsdk/thread/199ff247-529e-4fe3-a8aa-bf292aa11010

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/oxmlsdk/thread/6c2e4dcb-38fc-426e-80fd-cd0f73eda05d

Details:

For example when I copy styles in the style.xml from the template to docx, it obviously alter some of the attributes which were originally written in the document's style.xml; For example the rsId attribute within document style will be replaced by that of in the template when a copy happens. So is this approach of directly copying the style definition is a feasible one? If yes, what are its implications and what other things we need to be aware of if we need to do the xml manipulations ourselves?

Note I am trying it in the Java.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Also when I say copy, it is copy done programatically in the server side.

Answer 2

Here's a walkthrough on document styles.

How to: Create and add a paragraph style to a word processing document (Open XML SDK)

Answer 3

Hi Wilson Taylor,

Thanks for the response.

I am not looking to create my own styles in docx but trying to copy them from a template. As I mentioned it seems to work (meaning the style gallery shows the exact same styles that of template) when I do a copy of style.xml from template to docx but it also replaces many aspects (like rsIds) which was residing in the original style.xml of docx. I was wondering if this has any implications (though it seem to work in the test of opening the document) but I am wondering whether this could have any implications in certain scenarios I am unaware of..

I hope that my question is clear.

Thanks.

Answer 4

Hi gpbk

Could you give us an example of the kind of thing you're worried about?

Since styles are identified by a string, rather than an index number (as in Excel) there shouldn't be any problems in that regard. Only if the styles.xml you're copying wouldn't have a style name that's been used in the document - that could possibly cause a problem (although my instincts tell me Word might simply use "Normal").

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