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Re: RE: DOCBOOK: MS files included with elements?
- To: "Prikryl,Petr" <PRIKRYLP at skil dot cz>
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: RE: DOCBOOK: MS files included with elements?
- From: Jirka Kosek <jirka at kosek dot cz>
- Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 13:59:59 +0200
- Cc: "docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org" <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- References: <6150C715CE7CD311BD7B000629265FCC0D5839@SKILNT>
"Prikryl,Petr" wrote:
> So, if I was forced to do it again, I would do it this way:
>
> 1. Export the Word to HTML (manually).
> 2. Use HTML Tidy (off line) do convert the <font ...> and the like
> tags into markup that uses CSS (automatically) and to
> output the XML result.
> 3. Use ImageMagick to convert the images into the desired
> format (off line).
> 4. Use some XSLT processor and write XSL file to prescribe
> the conversion of that XML to DocBook XML (off line).
> 5. Perl may still be needed.
>
> Well, I never did the third step (being very new to XSL), nor I know
> whether it is the best approach. I guess that there could be some
> easier way. Anyway, I think that "Word to HTML" is the first step
> to follow and I do not think that can be done off-line.
>
> Any comments? (I want to learn something better ;-)
Some commercial XML editors have quite good XML import filters. For
example Epic has import filter from Word to DocBook in standard
distribution. I think that similar feature is available also in XMetaL.
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