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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: RE: DOCBOOK: MS files included with elements?
"Prikryl,Petr" wrote: > So, if I was forced to do it again, I would do it this way: > > 1. Export the Word to HTML (manually). > 2. Use HTML Tidy (off line) do convert the <font ...> and the like > tags into markup that uses CSS (automatically) and to > output the XML result. > 3. Use ImageMagick to convert the images into the desired > format (off line). > 4. Use some XSLT processor and write XSL file to prescribe > the conversion of that XML to DocBook XML (off line). > 5. Perl may still be needed. > > Well, I never did the third step (being very new to XSL), nor I know > whether it is the best approach. I guess that there could be some > easier way. Anyway, I think that "Word to HTML" is the first step > to follow and I do not think that can be done off-line. > > Any comments? (I want to learn something better ;-) Some commercial XML editors have quite good XML import filters. For example Epic has import filter from Word to DocBook in standard distribution. I think that similar feature is available also in XMetaL. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz http://www.kosek.cz
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