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RE: [docbook] XML support in word 2003
- From: Jens Stavnstrup <js at ddre dot dk>
- To: Alexander Voropay <a dot voropay at vmb-service dot ru>
- Cc: "'Shelley Santiago'" <shelley2253 at yahoo dot com>, "'docbook mailing list'" <docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 13:43:53 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: RE: [docbook] XML support in word 2003
- Reply-to: Jens Stavnstrup <js at ddre dot dk>
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Alexander Voropay wrote:
> From: Jens Stavnstrup [mailto:js@ddre.dk] wrote:
>
> >> i have a Microsoft Word 2003 file Save As in XML using
> >> the WordML schema and id like to tranform and render
> >> it to html in docbook. to do this i used xsltproc and
> >> it gives me this error:
>
> >Your XML documents conforms to a different DTD i.e. the WordML DTD
> >(or actually conforms to a WordML Schema). To be able to transform the
> >WordMl documents to HTML, you will need to create XSLT templates,
> >which transform the document to HTML.
> >
> >You will not be able to use DocBook XSL for this job.
>
> Is it possible (in theory) to transofrm a WordML DTD XML document
> onto another DocBook DTD XML document ? (DTD genetic Transformation ;)
>
Yes, it is possible. But as Camille pointed out, I am not sure if is
legal. Looks like a catch 22 problem. Maybe you should consider Open
Office instead ?
Regards,
Jens
> It seems it should be possible using a) MS Word Document template
> logically close to the DocBook semantic (<section><para><list>e.t.c.)
> b) a "clever" XSLT script to transform one DTD tags into the another DTD
> tags
> (may be not 1:1)
>
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