Gripe 3: Word XML (Issue 3)

Issue #3: No Notion of a Hidden Node
Another challenge is that every required node in a schema must be mapped into a document for the document to be valid (XML valid that is). Now this makes sense, we don?t want Word to produce XML that violates the schema. However, many schemas capture meta data the user does not need to see or would not know anything about. However, Word still requires that these nodes be mapped into the document because the schema requires them.

What would an alternative be? It would be nice to mark nodes as hidden. That way they are not visible to the user and as a developer we can populate those nodes behind the scene. I don?t have a good solution to this problem, however tomorrow?s post provides an alternative.

Tomorrow I?ll talk about the lack of embeddable XML