Re: [xml-dev] recommand tools for generate XML from WORD?

[Steve Ball <Steve.Ball@explain.com.au>]

Hi Rita,

I'm the developer of the DocBook roundtripping system, which (kind  
of) does what you're looking for; for a particular schema.  At the  
moment it is not a tool, rather the word processor templates and XSL  
stylesheets are carefully hand-crafted to achieve the translation  
from WordML/ODF/Pages to DocBook (and vice-versa).  That is, the  
DocBook schema is not directly used in the process.

Having done this work I think it may be possible to drive the  
translation using a schema, but there's a lot more research and  
development required.  One thing to consider is the constraints such  
a system must impose upon the structures that it is possible to  
represent in the word processor document.  It is certainly not  
possible (or would be very difficult and/or unwieldy) to represent  
every possible combination of DocBook elements (consider the  
infinitely nestable "section" element).

I'm interested to hear that you have found _too_ many of this type of  
system to choose from.  Of course, the system described above is  
complicated by the fact that it is a two-way system.  A one-way  
translation is much easier.

HTHs,
Steve Ball

On 27/07/2007, at 10:51 AM, Rita Shen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Could anyone please recommend the tools for generating the XML  
> using my XML schema from the raw data which are in word or text  
> format? I searched the website and found too many of them. I have  
> no idea which one should I choose.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Rita
>
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