Hi Jonathan,
Yes, DocBook elements map directly to paragraph and character styles
in the Word document. Any non-supported markup in the Word document
is discarded by the stylesheets (some basic formatting - bold,
italic, underline - is mapped to DocBook).
The additions/deletions feature of Track Changes is not supported by
DocBook, and therefore also not supported by the conversion
stylesheets. This is the area where I would have to (1) find a
schema that models additions/deletions, and (2) add custom
functionality to the conversion stylesheets to support same schema.
HTHs,
Steve Ball
On 12/10/2006, at 3:28 AM, Jonathan Robie wrote:
> Steve Ball wrote:
>> Bob Stayton and I have developed a set of XSL stylesheets to round-
>> trip between DocBook and Word(ML). There is no support for change
>> tracking yet, but I'd be happy to discuss your requirements in
>> more detail. There is support for revision history, but it is not
>> yet automated.
>>
>> The round-tripping stylesheets are part of the DocBook XSL
>> distribution.
> Cool - this would really make my life easier.
>
> I assume Docbook elements become styles in the Word document? And
> if users format things manually, their formatting is lost when you
> convert back to XML? (Which is fine with me - losing unintended
> formatting is a feature, not a bug ....)
>
> Is there a good way to model Word deletions and additions in Docbook?
>
> Jonathan
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