#abap xml

OpenXML in word processing – Custom XML part – mapping structured data

In my previous blog I discussed custom XML part and content control and how to work with it to achieve data binding in word document. Custom xml file was structured in very simple way. However there might be requirement to map and create some parts of document dynamically. For example we do not know how many records our table can contain after processing. In this blog I will show a way how we can…

OpenXML in word processing – Custom XML part – mapping flat data

In my first blog I wrote short introduction about OpenXML in word processing and how we can work with word documents in ABAP. In this blog I will describe custom xml part of word document and give some examples how we can use it in ABAP. For example how custom data can be used in on demand printing requests to provide customer data in document with content control. Custom XML parts were…

OpenXML in word processing – Introduction and how to use it in ABAP

Starting with Microsoft Word 2007 when you create new document in word and save it – a new file is created with extension “*.docx”. This file represents zipped xml files which describe whole word document. It includes, texts, tables, font sizes, colors, comments, margin settings, sections settings and everything what user manually placed and maintained in document. It is all about xml files…