Amedee Van Gasse schreef: > 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... > Found it: odt2txt http://stosberg.net/odt2txt/ I don't see a reason to reinvent the weel.
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