Create a schema in Visual Studio

The follow details must be unique

1. targetNamespace
2. xmlns
3. xmlns:mstns
4. name of element and complexType

Open up Word 2007, click on Schema

Click on Add Schema

Select the schema you created just now in file dialog

Enter an alias, mostly try to follow the URI

Click OK on the next screen

XML Structure taskpane will be visible
Add the Document into the Word file by clicking on it, you will see the tags on the Word File

Add a table in between the Document tags as below, key in the field name also

Place cursor in the cell beside the Supplier cell, then click on Supplier at the XML Structure task pane.
You now can see the Supplier tags

Do the same for the rest of the elements

Between each tag put a space as a placeholder, Word at the backend will create a <w:t> element

You can now save and close the Word document

Open up Visual Studio

Now we want to write a program to inject value into the 4 elements defined in the document above,
which are:

1. Supplier
2. Phone
3. Fax
4. AttentionTo

Create a console application, name it DocGenWithXmlSchema

Add reference to the libraries I want to use, they are DocumentFormat.OpenXml (OpenXML SDK),
All the main method of program.cs, define the XMLNamespace

If you didn’t add the Using statement, you can use the resolve context menu to do it. (C# only)

Create variable to hold the filename

Add a using block to open the Word document

Instantiate the MainDocumentPart and read it into XDocument

Then take out all the XElements of “w:customXml” which are the XML Schema Tag we put in the Word
document. Use foreach to loop thru the elements

Insert a switch-case block within the foreach block

Since I know which values in the 4 tags I want to replace, I use case to find the tagname and replace the
value

After the foreach block, save the document