Hi Buddhiprabha, That all sounds great.
At this stage I would say that you need to also take a look at the XML schemas for WordML and Open Office. Files saved by Word or OO are actually zip files, so you can unzip them and take a look at the contents. You need to understand that structure so that you can replicate it in order to create new documents. Cheers, Steve Ball On 05/04/2012, at 3:35 AM, Buddhiprabha Erabadda wrote: > Hi Steve, > > Nice to see you in the mailing list. > > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 3:20 AM, Steve Ball <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm assuming that you have downloaded the DocBook XSL stylesheets? There is a > specification document contained in it that details what is and isn't > supported by the roundtripping system. > > Yes I downloaded the latest snapshot version, docbook-xsl-ns-snapshot.zip > from [1] link and went through lots of folders and Docbook style sheets > inside it. As you said, I converted the specification.xml to HTML format and > went trough all the content of it. That gave me a good understanding about > what are the goals and non-goals of the roundtripping system. > > In what way would you like to participate in the project? Supporting Open > Office? Extending the system to later versions of Word? Use of XSLT 2.0? Let > me know. > > I have great interest in Open Office. Therefore I would like to participate > in "supporting Open Office" way and I am also interested in "Extending the > system to later versions of Word". But I can work in any way you suggest and > I can get familiar with it in few days. > > Since I am very new to Word XML roundtripping XSLs, I will really appreciate > any advice and suggestion regarding this project. And these days I am working > on creating a very strong proposal for this project. Therefore, your guidance > and advice regarding the proposal will be very helpful to me. I will share > with you a draft proposal I have made so far as soon as possible. > > Thanks in advance. > > Cheers, > Steve Ball > Explain > > On 02/04/2012, at 2:03 PM, Buddhiprabha Erabadda wrote: > >> Hi Steve, >> >> >> >> I am Buddhiprabha Erabadda, a third year undergraduate from Computer Science >> and Engineering, University of Moratuwa. I went through the ideas for >> DocBook and got interested in the project DocBook to Word XML roundtripping >> XSLs. I have been studying about DocBook from a few days and now I know the >> process at the client side and I have gathered basic knowledge about XPath >> and XSLT . I have also started studying about DocBook Roundtripping. [1], [2] >> >> >> >> Are there any other links to resources which might be useful to further >> study about the project DocBook to Word XML roundtripping XSLs? I am new to >> DocBook and I would appreciate advice regarding the project. Thank you in >> advance. >> >> >> >> [1] http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw05/papers/edited/ball/poster.html >> >> [2] http://www.explain.com.au/oss/docbook/index.html >> >> -- >> Buddhiprabha Erabadda >> Department of Computer Science and Engineering >> University of Moratuwa >> > > > [1] http://snapshots.docbook.org/ > > > -- > Buddhiprabha Erabadda > Department of Computer Science and Engineering > University of Moratuwa >
