El 16/11/2011 18:18, Gregorio Pevaco escribió: > > 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
Have you tried OpenOffice? It seems that OO can open Word documents and export them as XHTML or DocBook. There is even a non-interactive utility called 'unoconv' to do the conversion. I've not tested if it really works. Will do it ASAP. Regards. -- Manuel Collado - http://lml.ls.fi.upm.es/~mcollado -- XMLmind XML Editor Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support
