Reading Microsoft Word XML Files With SAS

This is a SUGI 31 (2006) paper.

Abstract:

In 2005 Microsoft announced that the new default format for documents created in Microsoft Office will be XML-based. The ability of SAS to read XML offers a convenient method for extracting structured information from Microsoft Word documents. This paper examines three scenarios where information from a Word document is read into SAS datasets: extracting text along with associated properties (styles and attributes), extracting all data from tables, and extracting coordinates of objects in drawings.