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

In first part of this blog I give introduction to OpenXML in word processing. In second part I will provide ABAP code how to read word files.

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 bounded via relations one with each other in specific structure and zipped into file.

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

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.