> [...] editing XML is crude work.

?? - -
I thought XML was what OOo works on / uses.
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On 10/11/06, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:
>
> way too many documents for this methodology...
>
> The larger issue though is the framework to convert this to. I am
> looking at how samba does things and they use 'docbook' which apparently
> is all XML which is converted by script into html and into pdf formats.
> This seems like a bunch of extra work and editing XML is crude work.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Craig
>
> On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 15:38 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
> > Craig,
> >
> >   A very easy way to accomplish the basic functionality is to send
> > the .DOC to yourself in Gmail and click 'View As HTML'.  The converter
> > works fairly well.  It doesn't always handle graphics properly.
> >
> > -jmz
> >
> > On 10/11/06, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:
> >         I have a lot of documents to convert from Microsoft 'doc'
> >         format to html
> >
> >         I have found a number of tools to do that but it doesn't
> >         really clean
> >         them up very well which means that I will have to do a lot of
> >         hand edits
> >         which isn't so bad considering that I will undoubtedly have to
> >         do this
> >         anyway to get a common css and common headers/footers, etc.
> >
> >         If anyone has suggestions on best methods for the above, I
> >         would
> >         appreciate it but thus far, I see little better than
> >         openoffice macros
> >         which do this in bulk (conversions).
> >
> >         More importantly though, there is a structure to the
> >         storage...
> >
> >         Base (subdirectory)
> >           Section 1 (subdirectory)
> >             Section 1A (document)
> >             Section 1B (document)
> >           Section 2 (subdirectory)
> >             Section 2A (document)
> >
> >         etc. and I would love for some methodology to build a table of
> >         contents/links to these documents automatically - and possibly
> >         even
> >         output the end result (the whole enchilada) perhaps in PDF so
> >         that I
> >         have other means to distribute this. I have seen many
> >         different
> >         publications that get built this way and I don't know how they
> >         accomplish this. Are there some open source tools that can do
> >         this?
> >
> >         Craig
> >
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