Re: Oracle Text / Office 2007 question / 10gR2

On Mar 17, 8:20 pm, Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bor..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> jeremy wrote:
> > Hi
>
> > As I understand it Oracle Text in 10gR2 is not able to text index .docx
> > files generated by MS Office 2007.
>
> Ah - the beauty of prohibiting cutting egde technology!
>
> Just curious - why do you think over 5 year old technology
> can handle this years propriety formats?
>

Through software updates of course - I am not expecting oracle to predict what microsoft does.

> > As the use of this format is only
> > going to increase (and we have to allow for this type of file) have any
> > of you come across this problem and did you devise a workaround for it?
>
> Really? Why will it's use increase?
>

Its use will increase because increasingly MS Office users will be using Office 2007 in the same way that Windows 2000 users become XP users become Vista users. When you save a document in Word 2007 and it defaults to .docx most users aren't even going to be aware of the file extension let alone its significance.

> > Our application accepts CVs from candidates each of which has to be
> > indexed.
>
> > We are running on RHEL4 / 10gR2.
>
> Updat to MicroSoft Windows 2008 server with SQL Server 2008.
>

Ah I knew there'd be a simple solution.

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jeremy