RE: [docbook-apps] RE: Converting MS Word documents to DocBook 5 XML

Thanks, I appreciate the tip. I
gave it a try, and Herold works wonderfully!

 

Regards,

Jeff

 

From: Michael Fuchs
[mailto:] 

Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 1:19 AM

To: Jeff Powanda

Cc: ''

Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] RE: Converting MS Word documents to DocBook
5 XML

 

Hello Jeff,

to transform HTML to DocBook5 please use http://www.dbdoclet.org/archives/herold-6_0_1-68.exe.
Save your Word document as "filtered HTML". Run herold --profile
C:\Program Files (x86)\Herold\profiles\word.her -i <Document.htm>. I
tested this procedure with Word 2003 documents, so if encounter any problems,
please let me know.

Regards,

Michael Fuchs

http://www.dbdoclet.org

Am 24.05.2012 08:12, schrieb Jeff Powanda: 

Sorry, just saw there was a
recent post about saving Word to HTML and then using dbdoclet to convert to
DocBook XML. I’ll give that a try.

 

Regards,

Jeff Powanda

Vocera Communications, Inc.

 

From: Jeff Powanda [mailto:] 

Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:39 PM

To: ''

Subject: [docbook-apps] Converting MS Word documents to DocBook 5 XML

 

What’s the easiest way to convert MS Word 2007 documents to
DocBook 5 XML?

 

I’ve tried using the DocBook roundtrip stylesheets. They
seemed to work OK if I did the following:

1.      
Copied the DocBook styles in template.dot to the
document.

2.      
Applied the DocBook styles to the document.

3.      
Saved the document as a Word 2003 XML file.

4.      
Converted the Word 2003 XML file to DocBook 5 XML.

 

This worked OK, but it was a lot of work to apply the
DocBook styles to the document (and there are several documents to convert).
Also, the resulting DocBook XML file has dbk namespace prefixes on all the
elements. How do I remove them?

 

I’m not interested in the roundtrip aspect of the roundtrip
stylesheets. I just want to get Word content into DocBook 5.

 

Regards,

Jeff Powanda

Vocera Communications, Inc.