Re: Any Doc to XML converter ?

Bob DuCharme wrote:

> In his latest "XML Deviant" column in XML.com
> (http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/06/13/deviant.html), Leigh Dodds describes
> and points to a recent thread on the topic.


>From a recent MSDN article "Export a Word Document to XML" by Kevin McDowell
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/techart/odc_expwordtoxml.htm)

"The XML output by this application is very straightforward and very similar to the
HTML output by Word itself, but it fully accounts for all styled text, tables, and
lists. "

and

"Conclusion
This solution provides a starting point to build an XML parser for Word documents.
In addition to the XML functionality, it discusses how to build custom objects to
handle sequential instances of all styles and graphics and how to loop through
tables and lists. Remember, documents shouldn't be converted to XML merely for the
sake putting them in XML. The best document to convert to XML is one that makes use
of styles and will be reused in other ways."


Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.

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