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Re:When XML in Word Became Illegal by msp_yc on Thursday October 12, 2023 @04:00PM (#37862404)
Not sure why this is downvoted, it’s absolutely correct. I tried this myself; it would have -greatly- simplified scraping Word docs because the custom tags would have been available for XPath querying. Alas, Word strips it all on open.
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Re:When XML in Word Became Illegal by blackboxlogic on Friday October 13, 2023 @07:53AM (#37869564)
Yep, we had a similar use-case. I remember the error message pointed to a help page which pointed to an article about this patent.
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