Word 2003 can be run in XML format. The top level schema appears to be well designed. Unfortunately, the Microsoft naming system tends to be overly cryptic. The sources for the lower level schemas do not appear to be available. This lack of availability has stopped me from validating the top level schema with XMLSpy. This capacity for validation would greatly facilitate extension of Word's capabilities. Although XSL is available, XSL-FO does not appear to be available. It is conceivable that Microsoft's nonstandard approach to styling could be translated and both the schemas and XML documents reused to create W3C standard documents with XSL-FO based stylesheets. Microsoft unfortunately is creating their forms with a different technology than Xforms. Unfortunately, it does not appear that even one of Microsoft's major competitors has had the necessary combination to technological and business sense to build a W3C standard document processor.
Bob Leif Robert C. Leif, Ph.D. Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Glen Mazza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 3:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Tools to convert a word document to XSL file? "I want to use Word" is wonderfully future-tense (I hope)--learn Docbook instead and create your sources is XML. If you're going to use XSLT and XSL FO, it's always best to start with XML. If you need persuasion on this point, check the cocoon.apache.org site for some very well-run sample document websites that keep their source text in XML and output to multiple output types. (They may also have other XML standards to recommend besides Docbook, I don't know.) Glen --- "Zhang, Li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know any tools to convert a word > document to an XSL file? I want > to use Word to generate the template, and then > convert it to XSL file so I > can use it in my struts action class to output PDFs. > > Thank you and have a nice weekend. > > Li > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
