Increase writing efficiency by leveraging existing, documented knowledge. MarkLogic Toolkit for Word allows you to extend Microsoft Word with powerful information applications designed to maximize dynamic assembly and reuse. Organizations benefit from increased efficiency in their authoring processes.

Reuse Subject Matter Expertise

By extending Microsoft Word 2007 with applications built using MarkLogic Server, authors can get all the productivity benefits of dynamic search, reuse, and custom tagging using familiar tools and workflows. MarkLogic Toolkit for Word provides the foundation for a new class of applications that take advantage of MarkLogic Server’s unique ability to quickly locate and retrieve granular information. Any Word users whose work relies on existing documents—policy manuals, process documentation, RFP responses, press releases, etc.—benefit from the improved authoring environment with Toolkit for Word.

Rapidly Develop Custom, Integrated Applications

MarkLogic Toolkit for Word lets developers quickly build information applications that extend the functionality of Word 2007. It comes with a Word add-in that integrates web-based applications into Word’s interface using standards such as HTML and JavaScript. A sample application provides quick-start templates for typical use cases such as search, reuse, and custom tagging. And as an open source project, Toolkit for Word provides the flexibility and transparency to easily extend its functionality.

Leverage XML

Microsoft Office 2007 features a new native XML file format—known as Office Open XML—for its core applications, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Custom-built for high performance XML processing, MarkLogic Server is ideal for Office 2007 files. MarkLogic Toolkit for Word simplifies working with Office Open XML for granular search, dynamic assembly, transformation, and delivery with MarkLogic Server. By leveraging the underlying XML, information applications built with MarkLogic Server and Toolkit for Word can round-trip Word documents without complicated and error-prone conversion between formats.

MarkLogic Toolkit for Word is distributed under the open source Apache 2.0 license. You can inspect, modify, and even redistribute the source code to suit your unique needs. While we do not provide official support for Toolkit for Word, we are committed to building an open and collaborative forum for developers to share tools and knowledge about MarkLogic Server and XML technologies. We encourage contributions—such as new features and bug fixes—from the wider MarkLogic and XML community. You can download the latest release of the Toolkit for Word and the project’s source code from the Developer Workshop. For more information about MarkLogic’s open source projects, please contact opensource@marklogic.com.

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