Re: [xsl] converting word document to XML

["Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

What version of Word?
If you have the professional version of 2003 then you can attach a schema 
and save or simply save the raw data, without the formatting markup, and 
transform it accordlingly.

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Joe
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Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 1:48 AM
Subject: RE: [xsl] converting word document to XML


> The short answer is, "Yes."
>
> Then it goes on from there. A great deal depends on how many documents, 
> how often you'll wish to convert them, are there any embedded files like 
> images or OLE files, and similar questions.
>
> I just opened an MS-Word document with OpenOffice and saved it as XML. 
> OpenOffice is a suite similar to Microsoft Office available for Windows, 
> Linux, etc. You can get it from Sun Microsystems at no charge. It can save 
> files to it's own XML format. From there you would have to write an XSLT 
> document to convert it from the native OpenOffice XML to your preferred 
> format, using a suitable XSLT engine (e.g., Saxon, Xalan).
>
> Is this a one-off thing, a one-time bulk transformation of a large number 
> of documents, or will you want to do this ad hoc?
> --
> Charles Knell
> cknell@xxxxxxxxxx - email
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:     Tech Savvy <tecsavvy@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent:     Thu, 4 May 2006 17:13:32 -0500
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> Subject:  [xsl] converting word document to XML
>
> Hello:
>
> Is there any way to convert a Microsoft word document to XML? The XML
> should conform to a given schema. That means that the XML tags should
> match whatever is on a particular schema.
>
> Thanks