I tried out some stuff in openoffice went through OpenOffice documention.
Yes Openoffice does automated conversion by calling it as ActiveX server bla
bla. But that mechenism does not suite me much and I don't think many would
fine elegent. The size and the way OpenOffice is playful with memory I doubt
it could ever be a viable backend for document conversion.
<sidenote> OpenOffice is a Bitch! </sidenote>
Then I sincerely went to wv's site now called wvWare <www.wvWare.com>.
wvWare internally uses XML for the whole conversion process from Word to any
format. The DTD for conversion process is defined.
XML is native language for wvWare
Sample code for conversion
#!/usr/bin/python2.2
import os
import popen
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s=popen.popen2('/usr/local/bin/wvWare -X '+ tmp_file)
...
wv is really cool try it out and its roughly 2 mb of download
my work is done
Supreet
