Re: [xsl] XML document to WORD??

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is surprisingly possible to reverse engineer Word's HTML/CSS 
export/import and derive a target for an XSLT transform. If done carefully 
enough, one can even get some styles in Word (which are wonderfully useful).

It's a finicky job though, and pushes the edges when you get to things like 
headers and footers (though much is possible in theory). Yet dreadfully 
satisfying to "tame" Word. Don't expect to get the XML back though without 
help.

I also like Joerg's other ideas.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 08:00 PM 10/14/2002, Joerg wrote:
> Two more possibilities:
>
> - using MS Word XML format - I don't know anything about it, but it 
> exists. In the future there will be XDocs 
> (http://www.microsoft.com/office/xdocs/default.asp).
>
> - using an XML framework like Cocoon (http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/), 
> serialize the output to RTF and open this with Word. So you don't need any 
> additional Java coding, only XSLT.

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