I wrote XSLT to convert Word 2010 XML to DocBook. I think it should be
possible to use XSLT (and a zip utility) to create Word files from DocBook.

It might be easier to create a Word file from DocBook than the reverse,
actually. A lot of the work I had to do was in wrapping the flat paragraph
structure of a Word file in the explicit structure of DocBook XML.
Flattening DocBook would be simpler, I imagine.

It would be a big project though. The XML structure in a Word file is
intricate.

Peter

On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Mordechai <[email protected]> wrote:

> The only thing I can think about is vba. I have a script that takes a word
> document and turns it into an HTML document (converting para styles
> mostly), I'm working on doing something similar that will create docbook
> tags instead of HTML tags, I imagine in your case you would need something
> in reverse.
>
>
> On 05/04/2016 3:55 PM, Fredrik Unger wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I have been trying for a while to generate a Word 2010 file from Docbook.
> I have a Word Template with styles for the most common things
> like Heading 1, Title etc.
>
> I had some problems with Word 2007 with name changes in styles.
> The style Title became Titel in the German version of Word.
>
> I would like to simply put the content of a Docbook article into
> a word document using the external template for style.
> Actually
> pandoc --from=docbook --to=docx --reference-docx=Template.docx
> --output=Article.docx Article.xml
> would do but this does not work very well.
>
> What ways or tools are available ?
> Do I have to use other formats as intermediate ?
> or is it not possible...
>
> Basically the article has sections (nested), title, para, imageobjects,
> and lists.. tables would be a plus.
> Would be ok with a subset but a plus if one can map a tag to a style.
>
> Any ideas and pointers ?
> I have looked at pandoc and python-docx but the solutions become
> complex and not very automatic.
> There used to be some effort for stylesheets but I guess that would not
> work with the predefined styles of the Template ?
>
> Fredrik Unger
>
>
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