RE: [WSG] converting WORD text into clean XHTML

2004-11-22 Thread Hill, Tim
I do not know of a program you can download to work on your computer. But Dean Allen of Textism fame has this online. http://textism.com/wordcleaner/ Tim Hill Computer Associates Graphic Artist tel: +612 9937 0792 fax: +612 9937 0546 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [WSG] converting WORD text into clean XHTML

2004-11-22 Thread Wybrow, Mark
There is a tool in Dreamweaver that can auto generate but I must admit I have never used it ... a plugin that works in [ free xcellent ] HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of john Sent: Tuesday, 23

RE: [WSG] converting WORD text into clean XHTML

2004-11-22 Thread Paul Hempsall
XStandard will do this on-the-fly. It's a WYSIWYG editor plugin for CMSs, not a stand-alone product. http://www.xstandard.com/ Paul Hempsall Web Developer Lake Macquarie City Council Tel: (02) 4921 0713 Fax: (02) 4958 7257 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.lakemac.com.au

Re: [WSG] converting WORD text into clean XHTML

2004-11-22 Thread Antti Tuppurainen
Wybrow, Mark wrote: I'm wondering if there's some easy (and free) way to convert text from a WORD document into clean XHTML that retains the formatting. I have been using this from MS http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=enFamilyID=209adbee-3fbd-482c-83b0-96fb79b74ded It

Re: [WSG] converting WORD text into clean XHTML

2004-11-22 Thread Lachlan Hardy
john wrote: I'm wondering if there's some easy (and free) way to convert text from a WORD document into clean XHTML that retains the formatting. If you have Dreamweaver, try using the 'Clean Up Word HTML Tool'. Then 'Convert to XHTML'. Any gunk left over after that is easily cleaned out using a

Re: [WSG] converting WORD text into clean XHTML

2004-11-22 Thread Terrence Wood
I've always found that you still need to eyeball the code because Word does some very strange things to lists, and headings in particular. Also a lot of Word documents are not styled properly to begin with (e.g. bold+font-size, instead of headings) which leads to added complexity to resolve.

Re: [WSG] converting WORD text into clean XHTML

2004-11-22 Thread Hope A. Stewart
On 23/11/04 9:19 AM, Wybrow, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a tool in Dreamweaver that can auto generate but I must admit I have never used it ... I've found that the Clean Word HTML command in Dreamweaver helps but still leaves too much junk I don't want. If you use Mac OS, cut and

Re: [WSG] converting WORD text into clean XHTML

2004-11-22 Thread Joseph Lindsay
Textism have a word cleaner that works quite well: http://textism.com/wordcleaner/ On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:45:30 +1100, Hope A. Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23/11/04 9:19 AM, Wybrow, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a tool in Dreamweaver that can auto generate but I must admit I

Re: [WSG] converting WORD text into clean XHTML

2004-11-22 Thread Lachlan Hardy
john wrote: I'm wondering if there's some easy (and free) way to convert text from a WORD document into clean XHTML that retains the formatting. Another addition: I just remembered that recent versions of Word allow you to save as HTML, Filtered. This is MS-speak for removing all Office

Re: [WSG] converting WORD text into clean XHTML

2004-11-22 Thread Nick Lo
I asked much the same question a little while back and what I got together was: First have the doc saved as HTML (Filtered) if it's coming from Word 2003 (earlier versions can get the filtered thingy someone else mentioned). Then in my case I wrote a filter for the content management system I