Support for Office 2007 files (especially docx) ?

Question

Hi,
can you please give me a hint if it's possible to use ora-text with the current office 2007 file formats ?
I need to have support for word 2007 (docx) format very soon
Is it already available ?
If not, is there a plan to support those formats ?
Thank you

Answer 1

Hi,
the workaround descrived above would also work for your plsql app. Therefore you can use the PL/SQL XSLT Processor in order to extract the content needed from the office 2007 documents. See DBMS_XSLPROCESSOR.
What is your business case? How do you store and index your documents?
p.s Here is an example of an xslt to extract the text content from an docx document. The internal structure of docx document is based on the Open Packaging Conventions (see http://openxmldeveloper.org/articles/OPC_parts.aspx )
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:w="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main"
xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
exclude-result-prefixes="w v">
<xsl:output method="text" indent="no" encoding="UTF-8" version="1.0"/>
<!-- document root -->
<xsl:template match="/">
<!-- root element in document -->
<xsl:apply-templates select="w:document"/>
<!-- root element in header -->
<xsl:apply-templates select="w:hdr"/>
<!-- root element in footer -->
<xsl:apply-templates select="w:ftr"/>
<!-- root element in comments -->
<xsl:apply-templates select="w:comments"/>
<!-- root element in foornodes -->
<xsl:apply-templates select="w:footnotes"/>
<!-- root element in endnodes -->
<xsl:apply-templates select="w:endnotes"/>
<!-- root element in glossary -->
<xsl:apply-templates select="w:glossaryDocument"/>
</xsl:template>
<!-- ****************************
start document
**************************** -->
<xsl:template match="w:document">
<xsl:for-each select="//w:p">
<xsl:apply-templates select="*/w:t"/>
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:for-each>
<!-- used for word art text -->
<xsl:apply-templates select="//v:textpath"/>
</xsl:template>
<!-- get all text nodes within a para -->
<xsl:template match="*/w:t">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>
<!-- gword art text -->
<xsl:template match="//v:textpath">
<xsl:value-of select="@string"/>
</xsl:template>
<!-- ****************************
end document
**************************** -->
<!-- ****************************
start header
**************************** -->
<xsl:template match="w:hdr">
<xsl:for-each select="//w:p">
<xsl:apply-templates select="*/w:t"/>
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
<!-- ****************************
end header
**************************** -->
<!-- ****************************
start footer
**************************** -->
<xsl:template match="w:ftr">
<xsl:for-each select="//w:p">
<xsl:apply-templates select="*/w:t"/>
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
<!-- ****************************
end footer
**************************** -->
<!-- ****************************
start comments
**************************** -->
<xsl:template match="w:comments">
<xsl:for-each select="//w:t">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
<!-- ****************************
end comments
**************************** -->
<!-- ****************************
start footnodes
**************************** -->
<xsl:template match="w:footnotes">
<xsl:for-each select="//w:p">
<xsl:apply-templates select="*/w:t"/>
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
<!-- ****************************
end footnodes
**************************** -->
<!-- ****************************
start endnodes
**************************** -->
<xsl:template match="w:endnotes">
<xsl:for-each select="//w:p">
<xsl:apply-templates select="*/w:t"/>
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
<!-- ****************************
end endnodes
**************************** -->
<!-- ****************************
start glossary
**************************** -->
<xsl:template match="w:glossaryDocument">
<xsl:for-each select="//w:p">
<xsl:apply-templates select="*/w:t"/>
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:for-each>
<!-- used for word art text -->
<xsl:apply-templates select="//v:textpath"/>
</xsl:template>
<!-- ****************************
end glossary
**************************** -->
</xsl:stylesheet>
Edited by: user304344 on Mar 30, 2009 10:23 PM