RE: [docbook-apps] Round trip style sheets

[Jason Zech <zech@loyolapress.com>]

I'm interested in trying out the roundtrip stylesheets for my own project. I have already downloaded the latest version. Is there a basic set of directions anywhere as to how to use them? My first attempts failed, and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

Thanks,

jz

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Ball [mailto:Steve.Ball@explain.com.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 2:56 PM
To: Speights, Scott
Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Round trip style sheets

Hi Scott,

Firstly, it is feasible to transform MS Word 2007 documents directly using XSLT. I haven't yet looked at MS Word 2010 but I imagine that would be OK too. The trick is being able to unpack the .docx file, which is just a Zip file, and locate the document content, which is an XML document.

Although the roundtrip stylesheets may not do "MS Word Headings" out-of-the-box, they do have an extension mechanism that would allow you to easily map those styles to something that is supported, like "sect1-title" or "chapter-title".

The current stylesheets do not support creating unnumbered sections, mainly because that is difficult to model in the Word document. There may be a parameter to use sections instead of sect1/sect2/etc. In any case, it would be a simple matter to post-process the DocBook document to convert numbered sections to unnumbered.

Regarding OOXML, I imagine that's not too far from WordML so it wouldn't be difficult. However, right now my big project is implementing XPath 2.0/XSLT 2.0 for libxml2/libxslt so I don't have any spare time to work on the roundtrip stylesheets :-(

Cheers,
Steve Ball

On 25/01/2011, at 7:07 PM, Speights, Scott wrote:

> 
> Hello, 
> 
> I am currentl working with the round-trip style sheets by converting
> Word 2010 documents into WordML 2003 documents and transforming with the
> round trip style sheets. My testing shows that there is pretty good
> support for paragraphs, tables, figures and lists but I noticed that "MS
> Word Headings" don't get converted to sections and chapters. (important
> to note: I have a German MS Word)
> 
> Do the  current style sheets support creating sections or is this
> something that I have to do myself by writing my own templates? 
> 
> Also, Is there any work planned for supporting transformations with
> OOXML? Sorry in advance if I missed any posts about this.
> 
> 
> Thanks, 
>  Scott
> 
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