Hi folks, I've been testing the w2x beta and overall its accuracy is beautiful.
If the only point of this tool is to convert Word into XML *so that it can be published in alternative ways* then it's fine. If this supposed to be a conversion tool for turning Word projects into XML projects so that they can be authored in XML going forward, however, I do have one major remaining issue. ID values and filenames are extremely important for making large DITA projects comprehensible to authors. In my current Word2DITA workflow, I use Paste From Word to convert to Docbook5, where I clean up titles (for topics, tables, figures, examples, etc.) and generate IDs for resources based on the titles. Following that, I heal xrefs and run the finished Docbook5 file through a set of my own scripts that transform it to a DITA bookmap project, using the titles of all the topics as the basis of their filesnames and appending a generated value to the end of each in order to ensure unique values. The w2x product is good enough that I'd like to switch my toolchain to use it instead of my current method, but at that point I'd have to build out a way of post-processing all the filenames, ID values, and xref targets. Have I missed a way of doing this in the current tool? Cheers, Jeff. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hussein Shafie Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2015 11:21 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; '[email protected]'; [email protected] Subject: [XXE] New XMLmind product: XMLmind Word To XML XMLmind is happy to announce the release of a new product: XMLmind Word To XML. Microsoft(r) Word is an amazing popular writing tool. However its main drawback is that, once your document is complete, you cannot do much with it: print it, convert it to PDF or send it as is by email. XMLmind Word To XML aims no less than to suppress Microsoft(r) Word main drawback. This 100% Java(tm) software component allows to automate the publishing -in its widest sense- of contents created using Microsoft(r) Word 2007+. More precisely, XMLmind Word To XML (w2x for short) allows to automatically convert DOCX files to: * Clean, styled, valid XHTML+CSS, looking very much like the source DOCX files. * Unstyled, valid, semantic XML (DITA, DocBook, XHTML, your custom schema, etc). More information in http://www.xmlmind.com/w2x/ -- XMLmind XML Editor Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support -- XMLmind Word To XML Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/w2x-support
