Word to XML

[Eivind]

Hi,

I'm in the process of making an application that should convert a
Word-document into XML. The Word files will use style names such as
Heading1, Heading2 etc. Since the application has to work on both Macs
and PCs I cannot use Word 2003 XML-features. Now I'm a little uncertain
on how to "attack" this problem. As far I can see, I have two
solutions:

a) Tag the text manually in Word, using VBA.
b) Extract all text from Word, into a Java application that makes the
XML-file.

I'm currently leaning towards b), because of Javas XML-features and
flexibilty. (And because I think using just VBA will be a lot of work.)


Any thoughs or suggestion? Should I use XSL-FO?

 

[Stefan Ram]

I'm in the process of making an application that should convert a
Word-document into XML. The Word files will use style names such as
Heading1, Heading2 etc. Since the application has to work on both Macs
and PCs I cannot use Word 2003 XML-features. Now I'm a little uncertain
on how to "attack" this problem. As far I can see, I have two
solutions:
a) Tag the text manually in Word, using VBA.

An example of a VBA program "Wrocco" to do this and some links
to relevant sources can be found on:

http://www.purl.org/stefan_ram/pub/wrocco_en

 

[Eivind]

Stefan Ram wrote:
An example of a VBA program "Wrocco" to do this and some links
to relevant sources can be found on:

http://www.purl.org/stefan_ram/pub/wrocco_en

Hi, and thanks for the reply! After a little bit of thinking I guess
this is the way to go. I could make a simple XML-file from Word, and
then some post processing if necessary.