hello Johnathan, My company, xyz technologies (www.xyztechnologies.com) is developing a product that will do exactly what you are talking about - converting documents from a number of source formats (text, HTML, PDF, Word, etc.) into meaningful XML, while preserving as much of the source formatting as possible. One of our target XML formats is docbook, and the product will come with templates that you can modify for doing this conversion painlessly. One of the advantages of our product is that we'll support almost all of these source formats - and you can easily add templates for other text based formats. We also have a particularly useful debugging interface which will save you tons of time in validating how well the conversions happened.
Our product is about to be released, and we are looking for customers to do beta testing of the product on real source content. We'd also be willing to work with you on the actual conversion. Please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you are interested in pursuing this further. Thanks! Riz ------------------------------ Riz Virk, (617) 905-3518 [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xyztechnologies.com -----Original Message----- From: jonathon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 5:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DOCBOOK: converting to docbook All: I have roughly 10 000 documents of various formats [ plain ASCII, TeeX, DocBook, HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 word, wordperfect, pdf and a couple of others. ] Can anybody point me to something that will easilly convert these to docbook, and preserve some/most of their current formatting? I'm not looking forward to doing the conversion manually. xan jonathon -- http://www.eskimo.com/~hwa/index.html
