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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: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 11:27:38 -0700 (PDT)
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There is onw way to convert XML into RTF but i need to
explore it....
Thanks for your valuable response.
--- Wendell Piez <wapiez@mulberrytech.com> wrote:
> At 07:33 PM 10/1/01, Kalpana wrote:
> >I don't know if there is any way to import HTML
> >document to Word Document programatically, in XSL.
>
> I guess not, but should there be? A job like this is
> far more effectively
> done by Word itself, isn't it?
>
> >Right now documents are being created in HTML, I
> >understand that an HTML file can be saved as word
> >document or HTML file can be viewed in MS Word,
> >frankly speaking even I'm not clear why do we need
> to
> >convert them to word if this way is possible.
>
> You may well ask.
>
> I think the requirement for Word format is generally
> rationalized as a
> requirement for interoperability (i.e. "we all use
> Word" or even "everyone
> uses Word" therefore documents in Word are
> portable). A clean (X)HTML is
> far more portable than Word at this point.
>
> Another rationale is that "we are dependent on
> certain processes as they
> are provided in Word" (such as a set of macros or
> Word's capabilities in,
> for example, cross-referencing), "so we need the
> stuff in Word". (In a
> weird way, this is the opposite argument: not that
> you need the stuff to be
> portable, but that you confessedly have a dependency
> on a proprietary
> format.) If this is the reason, you have more
> particular problems that may
> be more or less tractable depending on the specific
> requirements. But as
> was mentioned, Word's HTML import (possibly enhanced
> through special
> tricks) is strong enough even to handle many of
> these.
>
> Either way, HTML/CSS may be getting as good even as
> RTF for Word
> compatibility.
> (Would others disagree?) An XSL formatter that would
> take XSLFO and render
> it into Word or RTF will be a good thing (and if
> it's well done, profitable
> enough that whoever's doing it may not be making
> much noise yet). Any Word
> on that front?
>
> Cheers,
> Wendell
>
>
>
>
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