There is also the roundtrip stylesheets in the Docbook XSL distribution. These 
require that you use a subset of docbook elements. 

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/MSWord.html 

I haven't personally tried the roundtrip stuff. Whenever a non-technical person 
has asked for an "editable" version of a docbook file, I usually just 
copy/paste the HTML into Word, and explain the caveat that they should just 
ignore the formatting. 



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From: "Peter Lavin" <lavin.pe...@gmail.com> 
To: "Fredrik Unger" <f...@tree.se> 
Cc: "docbook-apps" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org> 
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 9:03:12 AM 
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] docbook -> docx 

Hi Fredrik, 
pandoc does a decent job of converting DocBook to .docx. 

See: 

http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ and for a detailed review, 

http://www.objectorientedphp.com/articles/pandoc.html 

Peter 

On 23 January 2015 at 08:45, Fredrik Unger < f...@tree.se > wrote: 


Hi, 

I am looking into generating reports that has to be Word 2010. 

Now I am able to get reasonable results with a simple test file using 
python-docx, currently just writing the report in python. 

My plan would be : 
- Generate/write docbook file 
- Create docx file with styles as template in Word 2010 
- Translate docbook -> docx using python-docx building a 
small python library 

This gives me the freedom to generate the reports in docbook xml using 
the tools in python, xml, templates etc. 

My current document contains, text, tables, images which all are supported in 
python-docx. 

Are there any better alternatives to this approach ? 


Thanks, 

Fredrik Unger 

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