Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook to docx

I wrote XSLT to convert Word 2010 XML to DocBook. I think it should be possible to use XSLT (and a zip utility) to create Word files from DocBook.

It might be easier to create a Word file from DocBook than the reverse, actually. A lot of the work I had to do was in wrapping the flat paragraph structure of a Word file in the explicit structure of DocBook XML. Flattening DocBook would be simpler, I imagine.

It would be a big project though. The XML structure in a Word file is intricate.

Peter

On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Mordechai <mdanielov@bitwisemnm.com> wrote:

The only thing I can think about is vba. I have a script that takes a word document and turns it into an HTML document (converting para styles mostly), I'm working on doing something similar that will create docbook tags instead of HTML tags, I imagine in your case you would need something in reverse.

On 05/04/2016 3:55 PM, Fredrik Unger wrote:

Dear all,

I have been trying for a while to generate a Word 2010 file from Docbook.
I have a Word Template with styles for the most common things
like Heading 1, Title etc.

I had some problems with Word 2007 with name changes in styles.
The style Title became Titel in the German version of Word.

I would like to simply put the content of a Docbook article into
a word document using the external template for style.
Actually
pandoc --from=docbook --to=docx --reference-docx=Template.docx --output=Article.docx Article.xml
would do but this does not work very well.

What ways or tools are available ?
Do I have to use other formats as intermediate ?
or is it not possible...

Basically the article has sections (nested), title, para, imageobjects, and lists.. tables would be a plus.
Would be ok with a subset but a plus if one can map a tag to a style.

Any ideas and pointers ?
I have looked at pandoc and python-docx but the solutions become
complex and not very automatic.
There used to be some effort for stylesheets but I guess that would not work with the predefined styles of the Template ?

Fredrik Unger

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