RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: M$word and docbook/xml

[ROSmith@ixl.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob McIlvride [mailto:robert@cogent.ca]
>
> Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> 
> > A better route is to print the documents out and have them 
> retyped in
> > India. Seriously.
> 
> A _slightly_ better route is to convert them to PDF and select and paste
> the text a paragraph at a time into your text editor, creating and/or
> adding DocBook markup as you go.

Bob, 

I can't imagine that would be any easier than simply saving the file as
"Text Only" or "MS-DOS Text" and starting from there.

Another thought would be to Export the .doc file as HTML, then use HTML Tidy
to clean up the MSHTML and convert it to XHTML.  I have never done this, but
it may work better than the "Text Only" solution.

-Ross