RE: Text only documents

[Kevin McLauchlan <kmclauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

Peter Neilson

> You might think about making a filter that will automatically and 
> reliably remove the unneeded parts from the HTML that you get 
> from Word. 
> The difficulty here is that when you change your Word source, 
> you cannot 
> be sure that your filter will still work on Word's corresponding new 
> HTML. Also, if you upgrade to a new version of MS Word, its 
> HTML might 
> be substantially different, requiring a fully rewritten filter.
> 
> If it were my project, and I had the time and/or budget, I would 
> investigate maintaining the source as XML, and designing or 
> purchasing 
> software for creating the required MS Word and HTML output. It is 
> extremely likely that someone has already solved this problem.

At this point, we're no longer really addressing the need of 
the original poster, but the question is interesting, nontheless, so...

Would there be any advantage to sucking an existing Word doc into 
OpenOffice.org, cleaning it up a bit, then maintaining it in 
OOo's XML-based default file format?

If nothing else, that process would free the pictures in the 
document from the closed Word format. 
Having the document in OOo would also result in clean html 
if you exported from there.

And it's free-as-in-beer....     :-)

Again, possibly not helpful to Khizran, but just some talking points 
of a general nature if anyone has any further thoughts.

Kevin

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