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"Simon St.Laurent" wrote: > > Ah, but if MS Word had a simple "Save-To-XML" option that let users save > their documents using markup based on the styles they've built. I was thinking about this last week. Someone could build this relatively easily on top of the Office 2000 save as XML and the MSHTML DLL. > Three > times now, I've seen organizations that had done a lot of very good > informal work with Word styles, and no easy path for those structures or > the documents that use them to move to XML. I guess the incentive just > isn't there for MS to make life easy. There are tools to do it, but it's > still not much fun. (Another painful case of asymmetry.) Even if the tool to do it was a "Save-To-XML" option it would still be not much fun. After all, the goal is not to get it into any-old-XML (that's easy) but to get it into "our vocabulary". That's the harder part. There are tricky problems about setting up division structure, converting tables to a particular table model, cross-references to a particular linking model and so forth. In the end it is a transformation job no matter how you slice it. And even then you will likely have to do many manual fix-ups unless the writers are Zen monks. -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco "Perpetually obsolescing and thus losing all data and programs every 10 years (the current pattern) is no way to run an information economy or a civilization." - Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/10124.html xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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