Re: XML to Word Document

Thanks Thomas I'm doing the same thing..


--- "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [kalpana rawat]
> 
> > Could anybody tell me how to convert XML documents
> to
> > Word Document.
> >
> 
> In general this is not possible, at least not with
> sensible results. This is
> because most xml documents say nothing about how
> they should be displayed.
> So how could a word processor know how to display
> them?
> 
> However, if you can generate an HTML display that
> looks like what you want,
> newer versions of Word (i.e., Word 2000 on Windows)
> can do a very good job
> of importing the HTML.  The following method works
> extremely well with
> Internet Explorer 5 (and I suppose 6), and Netscape
> 6/Mozilla 0.9+.  It
> works fairly well with Netscape 4.
> 
> 1) Display the document in a browser.
> 2) Select the entire document.
> 3) Copy the selection.
> 4)Open Word to a new document.
> 5) Open the Paste/Special menu.
> 6) Select HTML format (or Unformatted Text if you
> are coming from Netscape
> 4) and paste your document into word.
> 
> That's it.  If you used Netscape 4, the result will
> have no formatting
> styles,  but will otherwise look quite respectable. 
> If you are using the
> newer browsers, the result will be amazingly like
> the original.
> 
> I don't know if Word on the Mac or Word97 on Windows
> can do this so well.
> 
> If this works for you it is undoubtedly the best way
> to go.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tom P
> 
> 
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