Re: [Fwd: Word Processors]

[Jochem Huhmann <joh unidui uni-duisburg de>]

On Wed, 16 Sep 1998 16:14:37 -0000 Timothy Ritchey wrote:
> > There _is_ already a XML-Version of DocBook.
> >
> 
> Awesome!, I need to keep up on these things - do you have a URL for
> that?

http://nwalsh.com/docbook/xml/index.html


> I certainly agree about the rocket science part. However, if it were
> possible to reuse DSSSL with XML instead of SGML (which would seem to be
> reasonable) then maybe some of the more essoteric parts could be culled. 
> 
> Users could then plug-in/create their own DTDs and DSSSLs, with standard
> ones like DocBook packaged with the WP. Perhaps the Word XML extentions
> could even be specified by a pluggable DTD that would allow the
> viewing/editing of the proprietary information. I know there are
> translators that allow documents to be convereted between formats/dtds
> so you could import/export between DocBook and Word format.

At least there are a lot of tools for processing xml and there are more to 
come. Much better than digging around in a binary *.doc trying to get 
something useful out of it. (Although I've experienced that 'strings' 
does a good job at reducing some MS-Word documents down to their actual 
content ;-)


	Jochem


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