Week 3 (6/16 - 6/20)

6/16

Worked on the schema exercise to get a better idea about the structure of the document.
Re-attached a new format and style of schema to the word document and worked with marking up the information.
Talked with Dr. Gannod about how the files are set-up in an unzipped folder.
I am trying to find the path that refers to the schema document in the word folder.
Tomorrow I want to go over batch files.
I want to make sure that I can write a script to organize all the files that will be needed once I figure out where all the relevant information is placed.

I installed the SDK for the OpenXML Developer and it pulls up on the references list that can be added to projects. I wasn't sure what kind of project this would be attached to but I was guessing something C# and it looked like it was there. I'm not sure how to work with this though as far as what I need to be able to do with it. I know it helps you take the OpenXML and do things that are usually done.
I am reading over the libraries for the classes that this SDK provides and what it will allow as far as opening up docx files and being able to access the content that is inside.

I have been looking through this information and at other recommended pages dealing with OpenXML format. A lot of the sources I am seeing are dealing with going from the the OpenXML but not much about getting information out of another XML that has already been made.
There is a lot of code provided to extract things like comments and details but I remember the information load being large and I wasn't sure how that would deal with that.
I am still trying to see how the SDK actually works with Visual Studio and what it offers.
I found methods and the library about them but not much information about using them.

I looked over information about binding the content of an XML document to content tags located in a Word document.
I spent the majority of the day debugging through code for the OpenXML Document Packaging SDK and looking for how to get a .docx file to break down into the XML pieces through a C# program. Spending some more time researching about exceptions and problems that can be encountered while using this library gave a few ideas as to what to look for.
The problem ended up being the document that was trying to be read. The file was corrupt and the exception was being thrown due to this.

I am looking through what the breakdown of the XDocument that can be created from the OpenXML Packaging.
I am trying to see how the file is organized when it is read by this and how the document content can be pulled out and put into the format that is needed.
The interview team came today and asked about the research and what the project focused around.
Dr. Mandell also got to come to talk to us about what we had looked at and where things would start to head as far as how to apply what we know about the Word 2007 format and its new application possibilities.