Re: [docbook-apps] docbook -> docx

Hello,

      

      I advise the XSL-FO converter from XMLMind: http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/

      It's reasonably priced and does a very good job.

      

      However one limitation is that the output is made out of XSL-FO so
      all the structure information is lost (basically the Word output
      does not use styles)

      

      HTH,

      

      

        

          
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      Le 23/01/2015 16:03, David Goss a écrit :

    

    
      

        
There is also the roundtrip stylesheets in the Docbook XSL
          distribution. These require that you use a subset of docbook
          elements.

        

        

        

        
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/MSWord.html

        

        

        
I haven't personally tried the roundtrip stuff. Whenever a
          non-technical person has asked for an "editable" version of a
          docbook file, I usually just copy/paste the HTML into Word,
          and explain the caveat that they should just ignore the
          formatting.
        

        

          
 

          

          
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From: "Peter Lavin" <>

          To: "Fredrik Unger" <>

          Cc: "docbook-apps" <>

          Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 9:03:12 AM

          Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] docbook -> docx

        

        

        

          
Hi Fredrik,

            
pandoc does a decent job of converting DocBook to
              .docx.

            

            
See:

            

            
http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
               and for a detailed review,

            

            

            
http://www.objectorientedphp.com/articles/pandoc.html

            

            

            
Peter

            

              
On 23 January 2015 at 08:45,
                Fredrik Unger <> wrote:

                Hi,

                  

                  I am looking into generating reports that has to be
                  Word 2010.

                  

                  Now I am able to get reasonable results with a simple
                  test file using python-docx, currently just writing
                  the report in python.

                  

                  My plan would be :

                  - Generate/write docbook file

                  - Create docx file with styles as template in Word
                  2010

                  - Translate docbook -> docx using python-docx
                  building a

                    small python library

                  

                  This gives me the freedom to generate the reports in
                  docbook xml using

                  the tools in python, xml, templates etc.

                  

                  My current document contains, text, tables, images
                  which all are supported in python-docx.

                  

                  Are there any better alternatives to this approach ?

                  

                  

                  Thanks,

                  

                  Fredrik Unger

                  

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