Re: where to look for xsl folk..

I dont want any magic in the form of heuristics.


Adam


On 06/21/2016 01:59 AM, Flynn, Peter pflynn@xxxxxx wrote:
> On 21/06/16 04:42, adam adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> thanks, I know the PKP project and mentioned it in an earlier post. I'm
>> not looking to adapt that approach.
>>
>> Rather I am looking to convert docx to HTML with xsl. 
> I am assuming that you mean "docx with no named styles" here. That is,
> the Word document is a sequence of undistinguished paragraphs, and the
> only clue to their function (headings, etc) is in the fonts and spacing
> that they use (with minimal help wrt list items).
>
>> No magic involved.
> If the above is true, then you *will* need some magic, in the form of
> heuristics expressed in XSLT, to guess the function from the OOXML.
>
> Iff, on the other hand, there are some named styles involved (even just
> the Word built-in set), then a reasonable "good-enough" conversion can
> be obtained with minimal effort: install a new copy of Word, note down
> the names of the default styles available, and write a template for each.
>
>> Good enough HTML is good enough. 
> <xsl:template match="w:p">
>   <p>
>     <xsl:apply-templates/>
>   </p>
> </xsl:template>
>
>> I was looking for someone to help me
>> build this as well structured stylesheets that can be extended later.
> There is an extensive set of XSLT2 stylesheets which my university uses
> in their on-site hosted journals. They are migrating the journals to
> OJS, so this code will become redundant, and I am sure they would be
> amenable to share it if requested. It is, however, highly specific to
> the set of named styles used by the journals, so it would need extensive
> paring-back if you wanted it to function as a generic transformation.
>
> <plug>
> It may be useful to know that many of the techniques involved are
> covered in various sessions at the XML Summerschool in Oxford in Sept.
> </plug>
>
> ///Peter
> 

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