I'm not sure, but you might want to take a look at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextrtf

Thanks,
Mandar

Vasu Chakkera <vasucv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Dear List..
>This is a bit out of our context of XSLT. But I am hoping that there
>will be people who are into publishing, who would have faced a similar
>situation...
>The following is my issue.
>
>There are some documents that are Pre-XML stage and they are in
>RTF/Word .. I have analysed and there is no way these can be changed
>to XML and we have to live with it for the moment. It is a requirement
>to somehow stamp in some metadata into the word documents, for example
>stamp in a permanent Identifier for Sections within the Document.
>THese Ids can be later used for cross referencing.. Is there anyone
>who has come across a similar situation ? If yes, then how was it
>solved?
>
>Thanks in advance for any pointers you may give...
>
>Vasu