On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:13:42 -0700, Jerry said: > It has frequently been suggested on this list that, currently, the > best way to get a LyX file into Microsoft Word is to export from LyX > to LyXHMTM and then to open that XHTML file with Word. I have Word > 2011 for OS X and this fails because Word will not open the XHTML > file, with the message > > > The XML file bla bla bla cannot be opened because there are problems > with the contents. Details > No error detail available > Location: 2 > > > This happens even for the simplest LyX file with only one sentence > and no fancy stuff--the entire contents of one test file is simply > "Test sentence". However, the exported XHTML files doe open OK in > Firefox and displays math in acceptable, if not perfect, form. > (Firefox renders MathML out of the box--why can't other browsers join > the 20th century.) > > On the same "Test sentence" file exported via LyXHTML, I opened it in > TextMate, a very popular and extensible text editor on OS X, and > applied the "Validate syntax" command that is available therein, > resulting in this output: > > > xmllint output > error: colon are forbidden from PI names 'IS10744:arch' > <?IS10744:arch xhtml > ^ > Test sentence. > > > I am using LyX 2.0.5 for OS X. I _think_ I have been able to do this > in the past so I don't know why I can't do it now. > > I am preparing to start a major writing project and I want to > understand as much as I can about this--I'm pretty sure that there > will be a huge incentive later to have a usable if not perfect > version of my LyX work available in Word; this will include math. > > I know that LyX -> Word is a frequent topic on this list so I'm not > necessarily looking for a complete rehashing of the topic--only why > LyXHTML -> Word fails. > > Jerry
Hi Jerry, Your creating a tiny case of the problem is productive and rare. I looked up your error message and got several promising prospects: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html-editor/2009JulSep/0011.html I also saw some sources saying that namespaces could not be on if the name contained a colon. I don't know what that means because I'm not an XML hound. SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ * http://twitter.com/stevelitt Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
