Eric Auer schreef: > Hi :-) > > I think WordPerfect 5.1 was a really popular word processor > for DOS, much more suited for DOS use than graphical Word > versions today... > > The ODF and MS-OOXML formats are, as far as I remember, both > actually "renamed" ZIP files with several XML files inside. > > I think MS-OOXML also has binary files inside for printer > settings or similar sometimes. While the full office formats > are indeed extremely complex, you can often get a quite good > idea of the text content by unzipping the XML inside which has > the focus on content, as opposed to layout etc, and then > removing all XML tags and attributes. Example: > > ... > <fancyname fancyproperty="greenish">Hello</fancyname> > ... > > ...would simply be reduced to "Hello", easy to read in DOS. > Does anybody know a nice program for that for DOS? When in > doubt, you can always use the DJGPP port of GNU textutils, > for example the SED tool, to remove the XML markups... ;-)
I know there is a program on Linux that does exactly that, but I forgot its name. Shouldn't be hard to find. If someone could port that... -- Amedee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
