New info! The problem seems

decibel.places — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:15:30 +0000

New info!

The problem seems to be with the aml:annotation tag, not recognized somehow with XPATH - (maybe need to use asXML?)

$text = $tpl->xpath('//w:tc/w:p/w:r/w:t');

will produce the text fields

but the folowing will not:

$text = $tpl->xpath('//aml:annotation/w:tc/w:p/w:r/w:t');

I *could* retrieve the text and match it with some text stored as data... but I really want to use the w:name="a119421" number that corresponds to the S 508 Provision number... which is in aml:annotation since it was a Word Bookmark prior to conversion to XML

I found some helpful posts

decibel.places — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:23:36 +0000

I found some helpful posts about using XPATH with the OpenXML schema and MS Office namespaces..

http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/688
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-simplexml.html
http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/

This code will return ALL the text nodes in the doc:

$tpl =  simplexml_load_file('files/templates/laptop_template.xml');
$tpl->registerXPathNamespace('w', 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml');
$text = $tpl->xpath('//w:t');
foreach ($text as $t) {
  echo "<h2>" . $t . "</h2>";
}

but I need to perform a search for the parent xml tag containing the w:name of the provision that requires processing, then update the value of its child w:t node, in this test case w:name="a119421"

Here again is the xml tag with the w:name="a119421" info - I do not know how to work with an xml tag with multiple values such as this...

<aml:annotation aml:id="2" w:type="Word.Bookmark.Start" w:name="a119421"/>

Here is the text I want to change:

<w:t>VPAT text supplemented with testing results, including all core 
functionality, with exceptions specifically noted.</w:t>

Now here is the entire cell, opening and closing tags, of the text I want to change:

<aml:annotation aml:id="2" w:type="Word.Bookmark.Start" w:name="a119421"/><w:tc><w:tcPr><w:tcW w:w="4680" w:type="dxa"/></w:tcPr><w:p wsp:rsidR="000810DA" wsp:rsidRPr="0030483F" wsp:rsidRDefault="00991DED" wsp:rsidP="000810DA"><w:pPr><w:tabs><w:tab w:val="left" w:pos="4944"/><w:tab w:val="left" w:pos="7519"/></w:tabs></w:pPr><w:r><w:t>VPAT text supplemented with testing results, including all core functionality, with exceptions specifically noted.</w:t></w:r><aml:annotation aml:id="2" w:type="Word.Bookmark.End"/></w:p></w:tc>

notice, the aml (annotation markup language) opener tag is before the w:tc table cell opener tag; but the aml end tag is also before the /w:tc tag - perhaps this doesn't matter

this is code created in MS Word 2003 saving a /word doc as XML...