How could I embed formatted XML source in WORD documents?
- by eckes
I'm writing a documentation with WORD that contains XML source code (whole files) as examples. The way I'm embedding the currently XML is quite cumbersome and doesn't seem to me as really maintainable:
I'm finishing the editing of the document in WORD and create a PDF from it using Acrobat
next, I open my XML files (2x input files, 2x generated output files) with IE and print them with the PDF printer supplied by Acrobat
now, I open up Acrobat Pro and attach the four XML-PDF files to my original document
The problem with that work flow for me is that it involves too much manual labor in order to get the documentation done.
What I've tried up to now is not really satisfying for me:
converting each XML to PDF and appending them like described above
opening the XML files with SCiTE, copy as RTF and paste into Word
playing around with the LaTeX packages minted, pygments and listings (I could write the docs with LaTeX too) but found some unsolvable problems in each of these packages
I'm searching for a way that produces my documentation more automatic. For example embedding the XML files including formatting of IE (which I find quite readable). The files should be included by reference so that I don't have to paste the XML sources manually every time the XML changes.
