I want to dynamically load (AJAX) the text from some Microsoft Word files into a webpage. So I might have a link to essays I’ve written and upon mouseover have it load the first few sentences in a tooltip.
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I want to dynamically load (AJAX) the text from some Microsoft Word files into a webpage. So I might have a link to essays I’ve written and upon mouseover have it load the first few sentences in a tooltip.
Only if you have a parser. I think the new format is a zip archive with XML schema. But the old one is just binary.
There are some parsers out there.
I know of wvWare but it seems it’s outdated. (http://wvware.sourceforge.net/)
This is maybe something worth looking at: http://poi.apache.org/hwpf/index.html
And yeah, forgot to mention how to do this. 🙂
First you need to make the javascript ask for the data through ajax. The serverside has to take care of the parsing and return the text to the javascript. This will be a pain in the ass. I haven’t done this myself and have never tried the parsers I linked, so I’m not sure if they suit you. Images, stylesheets, etc…. not sure if that will be useable.
At least, good luck.