RE: XML to Word Document

There is onw way to convert XML into RTF but i need to
explore it....

Thanks for your valuable response.

--- Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 07:33 PM 10/1/01, Kalpana wrote:
> >I don't know if there is any way to import HTML
> >document to Word Document programatically, in XSL.
> 
> I guess not, but should there be? A job like this is
> far more effectively 
> done by Word itself, isn't it?
> 
> >Right now documents are being created in HTML, I
> >understand that an HTML file can be saved as word
> >document or HTML file can be viewed in MS Word,
> >frankly speaking even I'm not clear why do we need
> to
> >convert them to word if this way is possible.
> 
> You may well ask.
> 
> I think the requirement for Word format is generally
> rationalized as a 
> requirement for interoperability (i.e. "we all use
> Word" or even "everyone 
> uses Word" therefore documents in Word are
> portable). A clean (X)HTML is 
> far more portable than Word at this point.
> 
> Another rationale is that "we are dependent on
> certain processes as they 
> are provided in Word" (such as a set of macros or
> Word's capabilities in, 
> for example, cross-referencing), "so we need the
> stuff in Word". (In a 
> weird way, this is the opposite argument: not that
> you need the stuff to be 
> portable, but that you confessedly have a dependency
> on a proprietary 
> format.) If this is the reason, you have more
> particular problems that may 
> be more or less tractable depending on the specific
> requirements. But as 
> was mentioned, Word's HTML import (possibly enhanced
> through special 
> tricks) is strong enough even to handle many of
> these.
> 
> Either way, HTML/CSS may be getting as good even as
> RTF for Word 
> compatibility.
> (Would others disagree?) An XSL formatter that would
> take XSLFO and render 
> it into Word or RTF will be a good thing (and if
> it's well done, profitable 
> enough that whoever's doing it may not be making
> much noise yet). Any Word 
> on that front?
> 
> Cheers,
> Wendell
> 
> 
> 
>
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