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Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: M$word and docbook/xml
as someone already mentioned, doing a "save as HTML" from Word gets you rather a useful file. follow that by any or all of - Raggett's tidy - a nice XSL transformation - a dirty Perl script - a dozen emacs macros and you can get a load of useable markup pretty fast. I alternate between that and Majix, depending on how I feel when I get some vile .doc file. to my mind, the key tool (whatever else comes before or after it) is a really good editor for doing complex search and replace, preferably across multiple files. this is why god gave us emacs. I would say to every person considering Word to XML: "are you happy to load the file into a text editor and hack the markup by hand? if not, don't take on the task" Sebastian PS a note to the wise - just because I recommended Majix does NOT mean I am the right person to ask about it :-}
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