Hi All,
I have a requirement of creating a Word 2007 xml document with some specific data. The same process for creating a Word 2003 document is already present. How do I know what are the tags which have changed from Word 2003 to Word 2007 so that my work is minimised? I figured out that quite a few tags/elements have changed by a simple comparison of same document saved in both Word 2003 and Word 2007 formats. Is there any comprehensive resource where I can find the above information? A google/Microsoft site search was not fruitful. Please help.

Thanks,
Archie

Hi Archie,

Word 2003 is using Office XML formats, which are XML-based document formats. Office XML formats includes Excel and Word formats.

Word 2007 is using Open XML formats, which compressed several XML-based parts of an Open XML document within a zip package.

There are many differences between the two, you may take a look at Office Open XML introduction and Office XML introduction, which are talking about file formats, limitations and differences as well as examples.  

Hope it will help

Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I do understand that the entire structure of XML used in the 2 releases of Word are different. But I need to know how specific tags,elements and properties have changed. Is there any resource which can help me with it?
Thanks
Archie

me too - I was under the impression that the basic schema from WordProcessingML was still the same but I have just discovered that list definitions are no longer there in 2007 and I'm wondering what the other differences are

The two file formats are very different. Office 2003 document is stored in an integral file, but docx document is stroed in a ZIP package and organized based on "part" concept.

The name of some tags might be similar, but in a bigger picture, to distinguish the differences between those tags are daunting and not so helpful.

If you just want convert Office 2003 documents to Office 2007 documents, convert tools may be helpful, like http://www.download-up.com/free-computer-convert-word-2003-to-word-2007-software-downloads.html and http://www.labnol.org/internet/office/word-2003-convert-doc-to-docx-file-format-online-zoho-writer/2422/.

BTW, in my opinion, generate Open XML document from your data source should be the straightforward way. I am interested in your data source. Is it database or scratches from online input?

Thanks!