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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Standard Word 2003 template for converting Wordml-> Docbook
Yes, such a template exists. It is available through O'Reilly publishing. Check out this link: http://oreilly.com/oreilly/author/ch02.html#tools It's a simplified version of DocBook, but it's quite usable, and can be extended to full DocBook. - Dan Gilleland ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Hummel" <mhummel@pcug.org.au> To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 9:20 PM Subject: [docbook-apps] Standard Word 2003 template for converting Wordml -> Docbook > The motivation for this question is that archiving and processing of word > documents using xml has been increasing and quite often Docbook is a good > choice. (For example journal articles authored in word). > > It has been my experience so far that writing stylesheets to transform a > document from WordML to Docbook is fairly straightforward. However, > each organisation has their own set of styles named for their particular > operation. That means that a new stylesheet has to be written for every > organisation and while the structure is similar there is nonetheless > some duplication of effort. > > A standard word template where the styles have a determined correspondance > to a docbook element (even if not 1:1) would have the consequence that > only one stylesheet need be written, modulo customisation. It would also > save those organisations time by not having to develop their own > templates; only some data analysis would be required to ensure that their > content can be preserved in docbook. > > So does such a template exist? if not, I intend to declare one as a > starting point for such a standard. It is possible? Are there technical or > other reasons that I am missing? Do people agree on it's usefulness? > > Thanks, > > Mark. > > > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a post to docbook-apps-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org, or visit http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/. > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.710 / Virus Database: 466 - Release Date: 6/23/2004
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