Re: [whatwg] converting word (was code attributes

2009-05-01 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:25:17 +0200, Kristof Zelechovski giecr...@stegny.2a.pl wrote: Automatic conversion from Microsoft Word to HTML is doomed to fail because the document models and the requirements are different. The best you can get is a tree of DIVs and SPANs with Word- specific

Re: [whatwg] converting word (was code attributes

2009-05-01 Thread Adrian Sutton
On 01/05/2009 12:03, Charles McCathieNevile cha...@opera.com wrote: This is an oversimplification to the point of being misleading. There are many ways to use Word, and many people and organisations with haf a clue use it in such a way that automatic conversion can be relatively easily used

Re: [whatwg] converting word (was code attributes

2009-05-01 Thread Bruce Lawson
On Fri, 01 May 2009 12:22:32 +0100, Adrian Sutton adrian.sut...@ephox.com wrote: The biggest challenge in this is actually removing the huge amount of inline formatting and proprietary tags/attributes that Microsoft Word adds. In the latest versions it's also a challenge to put lists

Re: [whatwg] converting word (was code attributes

2009-05-01 Thread Adrian Sutton
On 01/05/2009 12:27, Bruce Lawson bru...@opera.com wrote: On Fri, 01 May 2009 12:22:32 +0100, Adrian Sutton adrian.sut...@ephox.com wrote: Off topic, I know - but couldn't a VBA macro hook into word and actually make an export as semantic html option that exported the heading levels as