Re: [Framers] OT: Word to XML

2019-07-23 Thread Craig Ede
Lynne, Very true! Craig .. ... There are at least a couple of advantages of Create and Apply Formats in some cases: 1) When there are lots of untagged overrides, C&A F gives you a starting point for distinguishing formats that have overrides from those that do

Re: [Framers] OT: Word to XML

2019-07-22 Thread Lynne A. Price
Craig,     Many, many years ago, my father laughed at a recipe in one of my mom's cookbooks which concluded something like, "bake for 20 minutes, more or less, it all depends". Same thing here, it all depends, but this time we might at least give a clue about what the dependencies are. There a

Re: [Framers] OT: Word to XML

2019-07-22 Thread Craig Ede
Rather than using the 'create and apply formats' feature, I'd use the 'find paragraph override'; and 'find character overrides' search functions to find anywhere where the tags are overridden with some other formatting. Mostly these will be nothing meaningful, and then you can set these ranges t

Re: [Framers] OT: Word to XML

2019-07-22 Thread Robert Lauriston
Which elements and attributes? On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:37 AM Roger Shuttleworth wrote: > > Thanks, Robert, for this information. > > By "simple XML" I meant something that would ignore formatting > considerations - in other words, tag the content with elements and > attributes, but ignore pret

Re: [Framers] OT: Word to XML

2019-07-22 Thread Lynne A. Price
On 7/22/2019 11:50 AM, Roger Shuttleworth wrote: Lynne - I have made conversion tables before, so that is not a problem. Thanks for the tip about not needing a DTD. My Word docs (not written by me) are all four pages long, and the style usage is probably about 80%. I agree that there will be a

Re: [Framers] OT: Word to XML

2019-07-22 Thread Roger Shuttleworth
expert.com 585-729-6746 www.frameexpert.com/store/ -Original Message- From: Framers On Behalf Of Roger Shuttleworth Sent: Monday, July 22, 2019 8:18 AM To: Framers Subject: [Framers] OT: Word to XML Hello Framers This is somewhat off-topic as it doesn't directly concern FrameMaker (

Re: [Framers] OT: Word to XML

2019-07-22 Thread Roger Shuttleworth
Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. r...@frameexpert.com 585-729-6746 www.frameexpert.com/store/ -Original Message- From: Framers On Behalf Of Roger Shuttleworth Sent: Monday, July 22, 2019 8:18 AM To: Framers Subject: [Framers] OT: Word to XML Hello Framers This is somewhat off-topic

Re: [Framers] OT: Word to XML

2019-07-22 Thread Roger Shuttleworth
Thanks, Robert, for this information. By "simple XML" I meant something that would ignore formatting considerations - in other words, tag the content with elements and attributes, but ignore pretty much everything else. I have seen the default XML output from Word... I will investigate the t

Re: [Framers] OT: Word to XML

2019-07-22 Thread Robert Lauriston
I'm not sure what you mean by "simple XML." There are direct converters for .docx > DocBook and DITA, for example: https://pandoc.org https://www.xmlmind.com/w2x/online_w2x.html On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 5:18 AM Roger Shuttleworth wrote: > > I have a set of well over 100 Word documents (I know...)

Re: [Framers] OT: Word to XML

2019-07-22 Thread Lynne A. Price
On 7/22/2019 5:18 AM, Roger Shuttleworth wrote: I have a set of well over 100 Word documents (I know...) that I would like to convert to simple XML (not the kind that Word exports!). They are all four pages long and pretty consistent in terms of structure, and paragraph styles are used for the

Re: [Framers] OT: Word to XML

2019-07-22 Thread Yves Barbion
s > On > Behalf Of Roger Shuttleworth > Sent: Monday, July 22, 2019 8:18 AM > To: Framers > Subject: [Framers] OT: Word to XML > > Hello Framers > > This is somewhat off-topic as it doesn't directly concern FrameMaker > (though > it could). Nevertheless, I k

Re: [Framers] OT: Word to XML

2019-07-22 Thread Rick Quatro
contact me offlist. Thanks. Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. r...@frameexpert.com 585-729-6746 www.frameexpert.com/store/ -Original Message- From: Framers On Behalf Of Roger Shuttleworth Sent: Monday, July 22, 2019 8:18 AM To: Framers Subject: [Framers] OT: Word to XML Hello

[Framers] OT: Word to XML

2019-07-22 Thread Roger Shuttleworth
Hello Framers This is somewhat off-topic as it doesn't directly concern FrameMaker (though it could). Nevertheless, I know there are people on this list who are much more knowledgeable than I, so here goes... I have a set of well over 100 Word documents (I know...) that I would like to conve