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That's generally tough stuff. you're best bet would probably be too write a custom script/program based on your specific requirements using Perl, Omnimark or some such. If you have a ton of this kind of thing to do, you should probably seek out a professional conversion house (like Docucon or Document Conversion Labs). The problem is that apps like Word, Excel, etc. use proprietary binary file formats. So you need to use an export function to get stuff like RTF, CSV, etc. But these generally don't provide enough structural hints to enable automated conversion. If you're able to author/re-author using something like I4I's S4/Text (a Word plugin) then can you can probably manage to get something workable out. But these types of solutions are only applicable at authoring time. Other conversion solutions generally require very strict use of templates/styles, etc. during authoring in order to make the later conversion possible. For plain text (CSV, etc.) you might want to look into a spec called XFlat. I don't recall the company that sponsors it (and haven't used it myself), but they have a utility for converting plain text using this intermediate format. Best of luck! Michael A. Rossi Computer Sciences Corporation mailto:mrossi@c... 856-983-4400 x4911 Matt Came <Matt.Came@ct To: "'xml-dev@l...'" <xml-dev@l...> p.com> cc: Subject: Conversion tools 07/23/01 10:32 AM Hi, Can anyone recommend any tools for converting standard format documents into XML. e.g Word, Excel, Text Matt
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