Re: [docbook] OOXML

[Steve Ball <Steve.Ball@explain.com.au>]

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).

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.

Cheers,
Steve Ball

On 21/01/2010, at 11:35 PM, Nic Gibson wrote:

> 
> On 21 Jan 2010, at 10:23, Dave Pawson wrote:
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>> On 21/01/10 09:58, Kevin Sperring wrote:
>>> Hi Nic,
>>> 
>>> I've been researching for a very similar solution.
>>> I'm currently reading http://www.explain.com.au/oss/docbook/ which looks
>>> like it might be useful.
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/MSWord.html
>> 
>> Bob answered this yesterday.
>> You may have to save into Word 2003 (the earlier form) first.
> 
> Thanks Dave - I missed that.
> 
> That's the bit we are trying to avoid - the application (generated via heavily customised 
> MS Word templates)  uses a lot of Office 2007 specific features. It may be that
> we have to go that way though.
> 
>> 
>> If you want to pay, http://www.upcast.de/  is very solid
>> and reasonably priced.
> 
> I've been talking to Stefan Herman about UpCast for a different client. 
> I'm impressed with the results.
> 
> cheers
> 
> nic
> 
>> 
>> 
>> regards
>> 
>> -- 
>> Dave Pawson
>> XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
>> http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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> --
> Nic Gibson
> Director, Corbas Consulting Ltd
> Editorial and Technical Consultancy and Training
> http://www.corbas.co.uk, +44 (0)7718 906817	
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