RE: Tools to convert a word document to XSL file?

2003-09-13 Thread Andreas L. Delmelle
-Original Message- From: Zhang, Li [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. Dunno if these

Re: Tools to convert a word document to XSL file?

2003-09-13 Thread Glen Mazza
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

Re: FOP code runs standalone, but not in a Servlet

2003-09-13 Thread Glen Mazza
I'm assuming you're using Tomcat 4.0 (Tomcat 3.2 appears to rely on its own XML parser, one that individual webapps can't override--see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=tomcat-userm=99849943408731w=2) From the link above, *perhaps* copying the xalan xerces you are placing in the jre/ext directory

Re: FOP code runs standalone, but not in a Servlet

2003-09-13 Thread Glen Mazza
Check also the text at the bottom of this page (Tomcat guide)--it may provide more pointers: http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/class-loader-howto.html --- Glen Mazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm assuming you're using Tomcat 4.0 (Tomcat 3.2 appears to rely on its own XML parser,

RE: Tools to convert a word document to XSL file?

2003-09-13 Thread Robert C. Leif
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

Re: WG: Informations about FOP

2003-09-13 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Patrick Kolb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read that the development of FOP was canceled and after that you only created Bugfixes (newest is 0.20.5) for FOP, is that correct and what ist the status of FOP now? We have two branches: maintenance (0.20.x--old) and trunk (1.0--new). Currently:

Re: Improving performance XSLTC / JAXP

2003-09-13 Thread Glen Mazza
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Use an XSLT compiler like XSLTC that comes with Xalan-J. sounds good but I have no Idea how should I do that. So I'm looking for some more details how to do that. regards Manfred Check the Xalan website for XSLTC:

Re: Tools to convert a word document to XSL file?

2003-09-13 Thread J.Pietschmann
Robert C. Leif wrote: Word 2003 can be run in XML format. The problem is that quite a bit of the styling information isn't available in an easy digestable XML form, it's more like CSS. Unfortunately, it does not appear that even one of Microsoft's major competitors has had the necessary