Docbook XSLT roundtrip stylesheets: a question

[Michel Goossens <Michel.Goossens@cern.ch>]

Dear OOXML/Docbook experts,

I would like to transform a Microsoft Word document with the help of the Docbook XSLT roundtrip stylesheets into DocBook XML markup. I read the Web page http://www.explain.com.au/oss/docbook/, which gives the procedure to go from WordXML to Docbook as follows:

xsltproc -o normalised.xml wordml-normalise.xsl my-word.xml
xsltproc -o sections.xml wordml-sections.xsl normalised.xml
xsltproc -o blocks.xml wordml-blocks.xsl sections.xml
xsltproc -o my-docbook.xml wordml-final.xsl blocks.xmldocbook-xsl-1.75.2/doc/roundtrip

However, uing the latest 1.75.2 DocBook XSLT stylesheet distribution in the roundtrip directory I do not find the four xsl files mentioned, but there are quite a few more:

docbook-xsl-1.75.2/doc/roundtrip/index.html
docbook-xsl-1.75.2/doc/roundtrip/pages.template.html
docbook-xsl-1.75.2/doc/roundtrip/reference.css
docbook-xsl-1.75.2/doc/roundtrip/wordml.template.html
docbook-xsl-1.75.2/roundtrip
docbook-xsl-1.75.2/roundtrip/blocks-spec.xml
docbook-xsl-1.75.2/roundtrip/blocks2dbk.dtd
docbook-xsl-1.75.2/roundtrip/blocks2dbk.xsl
docbook-xsl-1.75.2/roundtrip/dbk2ooo.xsl
docbook-xsl-1.75.2/roundtrip/dbk2pages.xsl
docbook-xsl-1.75.2/roundtrip/dbk2wordml.xsl
docbook-xsl-1.75.2/roundtrip/dbk2wp.xsl
docbook-xsl-1.75.2/roundtrip/normalise-common.xsl
docbook-xsl-1.75.2/roundtrip/normalise2sections.xsl
docbook-xsl-1.75.2/roundtrip/pages2normalise.xsl
docbook-xsl-1.75.2/roundtrip/param.xml
docbook-xsl-1.75.2/roundtrip/param.xsl
docbook-xsl-1.75.2/roundtrip/sections-spec.xml
docbook-xsl-1.75.2/roundtrip/sections2blocks.xsl
docbook-xsl-1.75.2/roundtrip/specifications.xml
docbook-xsl-1.75.2/roundtrip/template-pages.xml
docbook-xsl-1.75.2/roundtrip/template.dot
docbook-xsl-1.75.2/roundtrip/template.xml
docbook-xsl-1.75.2/roundtrip/wordml2normalise.xsl

Can somebody point me to the documentation how to use these (more recent?) files.

Many thanks, Michel Goossens/CERN

-----Original Message-----
From: Nic Gibson [mailto:nicg@corbas.net] 
Sent: vendredi 22 janvier 2010 09:53
To: Steve Ball
Cc: docbook
Subject: Re: [docbook] OOXML


On 22 Jan 2010, at 06:47, Steve Ball wrote:

> Hi Nic,
> 
> Firstly, an Office 2007 .docx document is simply a Zip file. Inside the Zip is a file called word/document.xml. That file is very similar to an Office 2003 WordML document, except that the XML Namespace URIs have been changed. If you fix up the Namespace URIs you can process the document with the DocBook Roundtrip XSL stylesheets (though I won't guarantee the results since I have not tested this method).

Hi Steve. 

I'm very familiar with the zip format. I hadn't realised that there was much similarity with the 2003 XML format. That is very useful to know. 

> 
> In principle, it will not be difficult to update the DocBook Roundtrip XSL stylesheets to work with Office 2007 (at least the document.xml part). I just haven't had the time lately to do it.

If I can get the time added to the project  I will have a good look at that.

cheers

nic