Isabelle: I have also had the same questions, and I spend many hours testing various tools to convert word to DocBook.xml. To be honest, I found that there is no one tool that does what I consider to be a very good job. There are some tools which do better job than others, and in some cases a combination of tools can get you a very workable starting point, however I found nothing to do 100% conversion. There is always some additional manipulation necessary to get what you probably want as a working DocBook xml file, which you can then open in XML Mind.
The best tool I have found that I use for my word docs is a tool called AntiWord. It is an open source utility, and it has some limitations, but for the most part it is the most usable docbook xml right from the start. It is pretty good about tables and some other formatting elements, but if you have graphic/image laden files then it can be a little more work (I need to use a different utility to only extract the graphics, then still need to go and insert the specific image attribute to the image). The good thing is that it makes valid docbook xml from the start, which then makes it much easier to do the editing and clean up in XML Mind. If you want to try, as I said it is open source, can get it from. http://www.winfield.demon.nl/index.html Check out AntiWord. For my specific work, I found this to work the best. Best of Luck to you. Thanks, /Gregorio -----Original Message----- From: Hussein Shafie <[email protected]> To: isabelle.boulain <[email protected]> Cc: '[email protected]' <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Nov 16, 2011 11:48 am Subject: Re: [XXE] Word document to convert into Docbook xml Isabelle Boulain wrote: I am working on a word document that I need to convert into xml to publish it n our web service. I have the XML mind XML editor professionnal 4.5 version , is there a way to mport a word doc and convert it, to use it in your editor ? o. XMLmind XML Editor Profession Edition allows to generate excellent docx files out a DocBook document, but it cannot import a MS-Word ocument as a DocBook document. FYI, we have tried to find a third-party, commercial or open source, ool which would convert an MS-Word document to a structured XML ocument (i.e. DocBook, DITA, XHTML) based on a set of declarative rules nd didn't find anything which worked acceptably. - MLmind XML Editor Support List [email protected] ttp://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support
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