High Speed XML Based Document Engine

Project Brief

Deliver a system that could create Microsoft Word documents on demand from within the MIGTurbo Contact Management software. System should allow the users to easily create their own document templates (using Microsoft Word) without any knowledge of word mail merge functions.

Once created, documents need to be routed to a specific directory or network share location.

Solution Implemented

We approached this solution with the aim of making an easily deployable high performance "Document Engine". The system was delivered as a standard Windows Service which accepts XML instruction files. Once received these instruction files are processed and the appropriate template document found and the merge data applied.

Microsoft Word 2003 was chosen due to it's XML based file options. As this entire solution uses XML (and does not require Word to be installed) very high levels of performance can be achieved (we achieved up to 25 documents per second during testing).

As the system is open any application that can create the appropriate instruction files can trigger documents to be generated.

Built Using Windows Service Application Microsoft Visual Basic .Net XML Microsoft .Net Framework Microsoft Word Microsoft Visual Studio

Services Provided Requirements Analysis and System Design Setup and Distribution Kit Development