Re: [docbook-apps] docbook to wordml conversion questions

[Mayo Jordanov <lists@oyam.ca>]

Hi Fabián,

thanks for your tip. You are right about the validity, but  
unfortunately adding title element doesn't solve the orderedlist and  
itemizedlist issues I'm having with the translation. The original  
document I have has a title and info, but the document itself it was  
too large for debugging purposes so I've cut it down to the most  
minimal form that reproduced the problem I have.

I've now added title element to the sample document I have (which is  
below) to make it valid, however as I mentioned above it doesn't solve  
the issues with itemized and ordered lists during wordml  
trasnaltion.Just as a note, the problem I have with the lists only  
occurs with the wordml translation, not with any other translations.

Thanks,
mayo

On 4-Jan-08, at 16:14 , Fabián Mandelbaum wrote:

> Not any experience with WordML at all, but for starters, your test
> document is not valid DocBook (at least not valid DB V5), specifically
> para cannot be the 1st child of article, at least as I understand from
> reading http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/article.html (title or
> info are the 1st mandatory possible children of article).
>
> You should fix your test document before further testing, for  
> example like this:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <article>
>        <title>A Simple Test Article</title>
>        <para>testing</para>
> <!--         REST_OF_YOUR_TEST_DOCUMENT_GOES_HERE -->
> </article>
>
> Try to use a validation tool or a validating XML editor, in order to
> be sure you process valid DocBook documents.
>
> Good luck!
>
> On Jan 4, 2008 6:33 PM, Mayo Jordanov <lists@oyam.ca> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm having some issues with docbook to wordml conversion, and was
>> wondering if anyone on this list would be able to help me out.
>>
>> The document gets converted with no errors, but there are some big
>> problems with ordered and itemized lists.
>>
>> 1)the text in the lists does not show up. It is in the generated
>> wordml document, however there are some elements missing around it
>> (<w:r><w:t> specifically, as if the <para> inside of <listitem>  
>> wasn't
>> getting parsed by the xsl sheet).
>> 2) the current docbook-xsl release (1.73.2) itemized lists don't have
>> bullets, but ordered lists have numbers, and with the docbook-xsl
>> snapshot bulleted lists have bullets, but ordered lists don't have
>> numbers.
>>
>> The document I'm trying to convert is as simple as:
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>> <article>
>>       <para>testing</para>
>>
>>       <itemizedlist>
>>               <listitem><para>bullet one</para></listitem>
>>               <listitem><para>bullet two</para></listitem>
>>       </itemizedlist>
>>
>>       <orderedlist>
>>               <listitem><para>number one</para></listitem>
>>               <listitem><para>number two</para></listitem>
>>       </orderedlist>
>> </article>
>>
>> To solve 1) I've tried  with both <para> and without <para> inside of
>> <listitem> elements, but that doesn't help, and according to the
>> comments in the xsl stylesheet it expects <para> (as it should). The
>> only solution I found was to modify the roundtrip/docbook.xsl sheet
>> and insert <w:r><w:t> around the contents of the <listitem> element
>> definitely helps to solve this problem. (I'm fairly fluent in xsl,  
>> but
>> don't have much experience with debugging xsl files, so putting it
>> there manually rather than trying to track why the <para> inside of
>> <listitem> is getting ignored was easier for me.) According to the
>> wordml 2003 spec (http://rep.oio.dk/Microsoft.com/officeschemas/welcome.htm
>> ) the <w:r><w:t> is required.
>>
>> My second issue seems to be related to the worldml template document,
>> and I haven't been able to figure out what exactly changed in it and
>> why it suddenly shows bullets but numbers are gone.
>>
>> I was also wondering if anyone is actively maintaining the docbook to
>> wordml xsl sheet (roundtrip/docbook.xsl) or if they are just
>> occasionally updated. Or are they intended just as an example and
>> should be developed further by users?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Mayo
>>
>>
>>
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