Hello to all!
i'm trying to convert a large ms word 2000 file to xsl:fo. Are there any converters available? I don't want to type everything again, and i also want to keep the existing text format.
OK, Here is what I suggest based on an educated guess.
You probably want to convert the MS Word document to some XML format such as OpenOffice or MS Office 11
(I think that is right - I don't know much about MS Office).
If you can read the document in OpenOffice and save it as an OpenOffice document then you can
open up the document with a zip tool to see that it is in fact several XML files inside.
One of these XML files is important and contains most of the data. You might be able to take the data
and use XSLT to convert it to xsl:fo (or preferably an intermediate XML format).
I doubt you will get the XSL:FO to look identical to the MS Word document.
The important point here is that you probably need different bits of the Open Office document to be
defined with different user-defined styles because these names will appear in the XML and can be used
when you do the XSLT transformation.
Feel free to email me off list if you need more of a hand.
Alex McLintock
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