[docbook-apps] WordML (Was: docbook and rtf/doc)

[Steve Ball <Steve dot Ball at zveno dot com>]

Hi Bob,

Version 0.1 of the promised XSL stylesheet is now available - and it 
didn't even take the whole weekend!

I have put the stylesheet, along with some information and usage 
instructions, on our website at:

http://www.zveno.com/open_source/dbk-wordml.html

Let me know what you think.  At this stage the next task is to have the 
stylesheet ignore everything that it doesn't understand, so that no 
matter what DocBook you throw at it Word will be able to read the 
result.  After that we can start adding support for various DocBook 
constructs - metadata, divisions, block-levels, etc.

I'd particularly like feedback on the use of the template document.  We 
could have the stylesheet construct the style definitions, but then 
changing the definition of a style would mean changing a stylesheet 
rather than using Word itself (which I think is easier).

Enjoy,
Steve Ball

On 01/10/2004, at 7:45 AM, Steve Ball wrote:

> The stylesheet we have developed unfortunately does not use DocBook as 
> its source.
> However, I would be happy to work on a solution for DocBook.
>
> Let me see what I can come up with over the weekend...
>
> Ultimately, this could be one half of an authoring system for DocBook, 
> using MS Word
> (or Open Office) as the front-end editor.  The other half would be a 
> (system of) stylesheet(s)
> that converts the Word document into DocBook.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Ball
>
> On 01/10/2004, at 7:01 AM, Bob Stayton wrote:
>
> > Hi Steve,
> > Any chance that some or all of the Docbook to WordML stylesheet could 
> > be
> > contributed to the SourceForge project?  I've been thinking of 
> > starting such
> > a stylesheet, but it would be nice to get a jump start.
> >
> > Bob Stayton
> > Sagehill Enterprises
> > DocBook Consulting
> > bobs@sagehill.net
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Steve Ball" <Steve.Ball@zveno.com>
> > To: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>
> > Cc: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>; "Ben Adams" 
> > <benjadams@yahoo.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 1:31 PM
> > Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] docbook and rtf/doc
> >
> >
> > > Even better would be to have an XSL stylesheet that produces WordML
> > > from the DocBook source.
> > > This is what I and another engineer in my company have done for one 
> > > of
> > > our clients.
> > >
> > > In fact, we're (almost) doing the round-tripping thing - the original
> > > authoring is done in Word 2003 [*],
> > > that gets saved as XML (WordML), converted to a more suitable XML
> > > format (DocBook-like) and
> > > then converted back into WordML for later editing purposes (as well 
> > > as
> > > HTML, PDF, etc).
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Steve Ball
> > >
> > > [*] They're actually using Word XP and DocSoft at the moment until 
> > > such
> > > time as they upgrade to
> > > Office 2003.
> > >
> > > On 01/10/2004, at 5:41 AM, Bob Stayton wrote:
> > >
> > > > Another method is to generate an HTML file, open the HTML file in 
> > > > Word
> > > > 2003,
> > > > and save it as a .doc file.  That assumes you don't mind manual
> > > > intervention
> > > > in the process.
> > > >
> > > > Bob Stayton
> > > > Sagehill Enterprises
> > > > DocBook Consulting
> > > > bobs@sagehill.net
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Ben Adams" <benjadams@yahoo.com>
> > > > To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> > > > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 11:34 AM
> > > > Subject: [docbook-apps] docbook and rtf/doc
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > What is the perferred way to produce rtf or word doc
> > > > > output?
> > > > >
> > > > > I am still on my quest to get my company to start
> > > > > using docbook instead of word documents, but i just
> > > > > received a request from higher up that they would like
> > > > > to review documents in the doc format so they can
> > > > > inline their comments to the document.
> > > > >
> > > > > I am working with the xsltproc -> fop line of tools
> > > > > right now for pdf output.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks-
> > > > > Ben
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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Steve Ball            |   XSLT Standard Library   | Training & Seminars
Zveno Pty Ltd         |     Web Tcl Complete      |   XML XSL Schemas
http://www.zveno.com/ |      TclXML TclDOM        | Tcl, Web Development
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Ph. +61 2 6242 4099   |   Mobile (0413) 594 462   | Fax +61 2 6242 4099