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Re: XML to Word Document
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] XML to Word Document
- From: kalpana rawat <kal_xml at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 13:25:16 -0700 (PDT)
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Thanks Thomas I'm doing the same thing..
--- "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@mitretek.org> wrote:
> [kalpana rawat]
>
> > Could anybody tell me how to convert XML documents
> to
> > Word Document.
> >
>
> In general this is not possible, at least not with
> sensible results. This is
> because most xml documents say nothing about how
> they should be displayed.
> So how could a word processor know how to display
> them?
>
> However, if you can generate an HTML display that
> looks like what you want,
> newer versions of Word (i.e., Word 2000 on Windows)
> can do a very good job
> of importing the HTML. The following method works
> extremely well with
> Internet Explorer 5 (and I suppose 6), and Netscape
> 6/Mozilla 0.9+. It
> works fairly well with Netscape 4.
>
> 1) Display the document in a browser.
> 2) Select the entire document.
> 3) Copy the selection.
> 4)Open Word to a new document.
> 5) Open the Paste/Special menu.
> 6) Select HTML format (or Unformatted Text if you
> are coming from Netscape
> 4) and paste your document into word.
>
> That's it. If you used Netscape 4, the result will
> have no formatting
> styles, but will otherwise look quite respectable.
> If you are using the
> newer browsers, the result will be amazingly like
> the original.
>
> I don't know if Word on the Mac or Word97 on Windows
> can do this so well.
>
> If this works for you it is undoubtedly the best way
> to go.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom P
>
>
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