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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] WordML (Was: docbook and rtf/doc)


Steve,

Looking forward to see your stylesheet. Currently, I am not able to
download it.

Regards,

Jens

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Steve Ball wrote:

> Hi Bob,
>
> Version 0.1 of the promised XSL stylesheet is now available - and it
> didn't even take the whole weekend!
>
> I have put the stylesheet, along with some information and usage
> instructions, on our website at:
>
> http://www.zveno.com/open_source/dbk-wordml.html
>
> Let me know what you think.  At this stage the next task is to have the
> stylesheet ignore everything that it doesn't understand, so that no
> matter what DocBook you throw at it Word will be able to read the
> result.  After that we can start adding support for various DocBook
> constructs - metadata, divisions, block-levels, etc.
>
> I'd particularly like feedback on the use of the template document.  We
> could have the stylesheet construct the style definitions, but then
> changing the definition of a style would mean changing a stylesheet
> rather than using Word itself (which I think is easier).
>
> Enjoy,
> Steve Ball
>
> On 01/10/2004, at 7:45 AM, Steve Ball wrote:
>
> > The stylesheet we have developed unfortunately does not use DocBook as
> > its source.
> > However, I would be happy to work on a solution for DocBook.
> >
> > Let me see what I can come up with over the weekend...
> >
> > Ultimately, this could be one half of an authoring system for DocBook,
> > using MS Word
> > (or Open Office) as the front-end editor.  The other half would be a
> > (system of) stylesheet(s)
> > that converts the Word document into DocBook.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Steve Ball
> >
> > On 01/10/2004, at 7:01 AM, Bob Stayton wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Steve,
> >> Any chance that some or all of the Docbook to WordML stylesheet could
> >> be
> >> contributed to the SourceForge project?  I've been thinking of
> >> starting such
> >> a stylesheet, but it would be nice to get a jump start.
> >>
> >> Bob Stayton
> >> Sagehill Enterprises
> >> DocBook Consulting
> >> bobs@sagehill.net
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Steve Ball" <Steve.Ball@zveno.com>
> >> To: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>
> >> Cc: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>; "Ben Adams"
> >> <benjadams@yahoo.com>
> >> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 1:31 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] docbook and rtf/doc
> >>
> >>
> >>> Even better would be to have an XSL stylesheet that produces WordML
> >>> from the DocBook source.
> >>> This is what I and another engineer in my company have done for one
> >>> of
> >>> our clients.
> >>>
> >>> In fact, we're (almost) doing the round-tripping thing - the original
> >>> authoring is done in Word 2003 [*],
> >>> that gets saved as XML (WordML), converted to a more suitable XML
> >>> format (DocBook-like) and
> >>> then converted back into WordML for later editing purposes (as well
> >>> as
> >>> HTML, PDF, etc).
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Steve Ball
> >>>
> >>> [*] They're actually using Word XP and DocSoft at the moment until
> >>> such
> >>> time as they upgrade to
> >>> Office 2003.
> >>>
> >>> On 01/10/2004, at 5:41 AM, Bob Stayton wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Another method is to generate an HTML file, open the HTML file in
> >>>> Word
> >>>> 2003,
> >>>> and save it as a .doc file.  That assumes you don't mind manual
> >>>> intervention
> >>>> in the process.
> >>>>
> >>>> Bob Stayton
> >>>> Sagehill Enterprises
> >>>> DocBook Consulting
> >>>> bobs@sagehill.net
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>> From: "Ben Adams" <benjadams@yahoo.com>
> >>>> To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> >>>> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 11:34 AM
> >>>> Subject: [docbook-apps] docbook and rtf/doc
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> What is the perferred way to produce rtf or word doc
> >>>>> output?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I am still on my quest to get my company to start
> >>>>> using docbook instead of word documents, but i just
> >>>>> received a request from higher up that they would like
> >>>>> to review documents in the doc format so they can
> >>>>> inline their comments to the document.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I am working with the xsltproc -> fop line of tools
> >>>>> right now for pdf output.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks-
> >>>>> Ben
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
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> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> ---
> >>>
> >>> Steve Ball            |   XSLT Standard Library   | Training &
> >>> Seminars
> >>> Zveno Pty Ltd         |     Web Tcl Complete      |   XML XSL Schemas
> >>> http://www.zveno.com/ |      TclXML TclDOM        | Tcl, Web
> >>> Development
> >>> Steve.Ball@zveno.com
> >>> +---------------------------+---------------------
> >>> Ph. +61 2 6242 4099   |   Mobile (0413) 594 462   | Fax +61 2 6242
> >>> 4099
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Steve Ball            |   XSLT Standard Library   | Training & Seminars
> > Zveno Pty Ltd         |     Web Tcl Complete      |   XML XSL Schemas
> > http://www.zveno.com/ |      TclXML TclDOM        | Tcl, Web
> > Development
> > Steve.Ball@zveno.com
> > +---------------------------+---------------------
> > Ph. +61 2 6242 4099   |   Mobile (0413) 594 462   | Fax +61 2 6242 4099
> >
> >
> >
>
> ---
>
> Steve Ball            |   XSLT Standard Library   | Training & Seminars
> Zveno Pty Ltd         |     Web Tcl Complete      |   XML XSL Schemas
> http://www.zveno.com/ |      TclXML TclDOM        | Tcl, Web Development
> Steve.Ball@zveno.com  +---------------------------+---------------------
> Ph. +61 2 6242 4099   |   Mobile (0413) 594 462   | Fax +61 2 6242 4099
>
>
>



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