Thanks for the encouragement I've received from several people. I've
started on the Word XML library.
Best,
Curry
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I have been looking into this and would like to take a shot at making a
library for the basics of reading in Word XML files, for a reasonable
price--not more than $50--if I can be sure of a few users who need it.
Curry
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Richard Gaskin:
Have any of you written anything to parse MS Word files
I don't need it now, but if it works simple and stable, it'd be
something I'd pay for, to have it when the need arises.
On the other hand, everything I have read up to now seems to imply that
Microsoft does not want anyone to meddle with these files, and making
an interpreter is not really
Have any of you written anything to parse MS Word files into a form
usable in Rev?
For the last several versions MS has been using XML for Word, so
conceivably it would be tedious but not impossible to write a handler
which would take a Word file and return htmlText for all the portions
I think there was a thread on this about a month ago; there was a
link to a site where a developer writes about the experience.
Appearantly MS's version of XML is totally strange and broken. Yet MS
is pushing ISO for standardization.
There seem to be a lot of converters on the net, though,
