Thank you very much for this detailed answer. We also want to thank all the other readers of this mailing list who took the time to answer Mr Glenn Candland's question.
However, I'm sure that Mr. Glenn Candland wants something which works as simply as copy (a table from MS Word) and paste (same table, automatically converted to a CALS or XHTML table, into XMLmind XML Editor). Doing this is certainly feasible, but requires developing a custom command in Java[tm]. Peter Ring wrote: > You don't mention which table model you use; CALS/OASIS Exchange, or XHTML. > > If you use XHTML tables, you can ignore most of the following, and just use > tidy to get get clean XHTML from Word. > > If you use CALS tables, you could use any of a number of tools that transform > Word to DocBook. > > Do expect to spend some time experimenting and tweaking; none of the tools > that I know will work out-of-the-box for all Word documents. In my > experience, Word documents that are styled using the built-in Word styles are > easiest to convert. > > A good place to start looking for DocBook tools: > > * http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/DocBookTools > > I'd try using upCast first. There is a time-bombed but otherwise functional > preview for a new release available at: > > * http://preview.upcast.de/index.html > > Logictran R2NET is also nice: > > * http://www.logictran.com/products/r2net.html > > Yet another commercial tool: > > * http://www.docsoft.com/w2xml.aspx > > There is also a number of variations on 'Save as HTML, tidy to XHTML and > convert'. > > On the DocBook wiki: > > * http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/Html2DocBook > > Another XSLT: > > * http://osteele.com/software/xslt/html2db/ > * http://osteele.com/sources/html2db.zip > > DocBook Doclet 'herold': > > * http://www.dbdoclet.org/ > > Combining tidy and up-translation (a bit outdated, not maintained): > > * http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~ppadala/projects/tidy/ > > > Kind regards, > Peter Ring
