RE: [docbook-apps] Tool for Word->DocBook conversion (UpCast?)

Thanks very much Johann!  I will try this out..

steve

 

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 09:11:33 +0200, Johann Richard wrote
> Steve,
> 
> > There is mention on DocBook 
> > Wiki that an XSL can then be applied to create the DocBook result..
> does 
> > anyone have anymore insight on this?
> 
> I asked the people at infinityloop if they already got a stylesheet 
> to convert their upCast XML to DocBook and they indeed did. I 
> attached the file to this mail. It might need some customization but 
> it basically works quite well. 
> 
> Personally, I started using upCast after a rough evaluation of some 
> of the other tools mentioned on the list. It proved very useful for 
> conversions of medium and large Word Documents w/ formulas, images,
>  embedded stuff etc. 
> 
> Unicode might be an issue in your case, it wasn't for me, and it 
> seems that the preview release 3.2.1 and also the 4.0 beta have some 
> unicode support available and even the possibility to directly 
> generate output for a specific DTD. I didn't check in detail, but 
> maybe you want to have a look at it.
> 
> HTH,
> johann
> 
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