RE: One texdocument in and several xmldocuments out?

You can convert a Word document to HTML using File / Save As... and
selecting HTML or Filtered HTML. The difference between these two is
HTML preserves all of Word's information such as <span> tags to mark
spelling and grammar issues, whereas Filtered HTML drops the
Word-specific tags. Then follow the advice already provided here (e.g.,
Tidy) to ensure that the HTML is well-formed XML.

Cheers,
Stuart

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert
Koberg
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 06:43
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  One texdocument in and several xmldocuments out?

Hi,

Zack Brown wrote:

>On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 01:28:51PM +0200, Tove Nilstun wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi
>>
>>I am a total beginner when it comes to XML, but in order to start
working
>>with it, there are two things I need to sort out.
>>
>>I have a user guide (written in MS Word) with both text and pictures.
I
>>would like to 1. convert this document to several xml documents, one
per
>>headline and 2. create an additional xml file containing an index of
the
>>files created in step one.
>>
>>Is this possible?
>>    
>>
>
>Absolutely. Just create one XSLT file for each output file you desire.
>Then run the XML through your parser once for each XSLT file you've
>created
>

You do not need an XSLT file for each page.

First you have to get the MSWord doc into XML. THere are a few products 
out there that convert Word to docbook or some other XML. A neat trick 
we found when building our MSIE-based editor was that you could paste a 
MSWord doc into an element that has contentEditable="true". IE converts 
this to HTML. We use JS to convert it to XML on the client, but you 
could use Tidy to get well-formed HTML (XML). Then hopefully there are 
clean separations to indicate where a new page should start. 
Apply-templates (loop) on each page division and (you can) use extension

functions built into Saxon or Xalan to create multiple output documents 
from one source.

best,
-Rob


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