Translating XML

[Philipp Lenssen]

Is there any way to import/ export XML into Word or Excel?

See I want to have XML files translated. Now some translators would say "We don't do that", so we wrote a nice Web interface to do it. Now some translators might still say "We only do Word or Excel" (as some parts may be automated, but you cannot automate it with the Web tool). So how would one e.g. store hidden tags-information into Word, something which cannot be seen or edited, and have it be imported back into the XML source in the end?

Thanks

 

[Martin SChukrazy]

Yes there are several tools which allow you to transfer data from excel (maybe word definitely if you save as a text file) into XML and vice versa. One such tool is datajunction which allows you to do this.

Martin

 

[Philipp Lenssen]

Yes there are several tools which allow you to transfer data from excel (maybe word definitely if you save as a text file) into XML and vice versa. One such tool is datajunction which allows you to do this.

The point is that is should be exported with hidden locked fields, so that after the translators worked on the Word/ Excel, the import to XML is trouble-free.

 

[Martin SChukrazy]

You want to translate an XML document to text (display on word) and back? Did i get you correctly? Because if you want to display on word, you would rather have it on text format... Actually you can also spit out html to word and then reconverted back to xml once you are done... Data Junction may have a word to xml and back translator but for it to work correctly it should work really efficiently. Another way you could do this is to have a word macro which loads it from an xml file and another macro which stores it back to an xml file (that way you have complete control). By the way word does display html documents so you can easily convert from xml to word and back