Forwarded from xml-dev [with one small correction to the URL] because lots of people have asked about things like this. Follow-ups to xml-dev, please.
I've been holding off on this so that xml.com could publish the article, but for those wanting an open source XML document editor, you may find http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/02/07/openoffice.html interesting. Summary: Author in OpenOffice, save as XML (or in StarOffice 6, the default save format), use tools I wrote to convert to docbook, or other formats, and you have a perfect tool for the job (IMHO). Alternatively, with AxKit, you can store OpenOffice files directly on the web server, and AxKit will detect them, extract the Content.xml from the zip package, transform to docbook, and then write a stylesheet of your choice to transform to something renderable. See that in action at http://take23.org/articles/2001/02/05/axkit.sxw (thats an openoffice Writer 6.0 file, which you can download in "raw" format by passing a querystring passthru=1 - save the file and try unzip or winzip on it). -- <Matt/> /|| ** Founder and CTO ** ** http://axkit.com/ ** //|| ** AxKit.com Ltd ** ** XML Application Serving ** // || ** http://axkit.org ** ** XSLT, XPathScript, XSP ** // \\| // ** mod_perl news and resources: http://take23.org ** \\// //\\ // \\