[Framers] OT: Word to XML

[Roger Shuttleworth]

Hello Yves and Lynne

Thanks to you both for the information and for your kind offers. I am 
very impressed with all your willingness to help. As mentioned to Rick, 
I need to do a lot more research yet, but may take you up on it later.

Lynne - I have made conversion tables before, so that is not a problem. 
Thanks for the tip about not needing a DTD. My Word docs (not written by 
me) are all four pages long, and the style usage is probably about 80%. 
I agree that there will be a lot of cleanup to do first, but I can 
assemble dozens of files at once into a single file and hopefully use 
Find/Replace and/or VBA to handle a lot of it, then split the files up 
again later.

Lots of thinking to do before I pitch in!

Regards,

Roger

On 22/07/2019 14:00, Yves Barbion wrote:
> Hi Roger
>
> I still use MIF2Go for Word to DITA conversions (via Frame, of course).
> Yes, it still works with FrameMaker 11 on Windows 10 and yes, it's
> incredibly powerful. I still have a (very old) video here on YouTube which
> shows you more or less how it works:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHUE0G_VhTU
>
> If you're interested, we can have a webmeeting or you can send me a sample
> Word file to give it a whirl.
>
> I wish someone would update MIF2Go for the later versions of Frame. Jeremy
> Griffith did some really nice work here.
>
> Cheers
>
> Yves Barbion
> www.flowtime.be
>
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 at 14:37, Rick Quatro <rick at rickquatro.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Roger,
>>
>> If they are docx files, you can replace the .docx extension with .zip and
>> get to the content inside the document. It will be the cluttered Word XML,
>> but you can then use ExtendScript or XSLT to transform it to something
>> useful. If you want to have a web meeting to explore this, please contact
>> me
>> offlist. Thanks.
>>
>> Rick
>>
>> Rick Quatro
>> Carmen Publishing Inc.
>> rick at frameexpert.com
>> 585-729-6746
>> www.frameexpert.com/store/
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Framers <framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro.com at lists.frameusers.com>
>> On
>> Behalf Of Roger Shuttleworth
>> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2019 8:18 AM
>> To: Framers <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
>> Subject: [Framers] OT: Word to XML
>>
>> Hello Framers
>>
>> This is somewhat off-topic as it doesn't directly concern FrameMaker
>> (though
>> it could). Nevertheless, I know there are people on this list who are much
>> more knowledgeable than I, so here goes...
>>
>> I have a set of well over 100 Word documents (I know...) that I would like
>> to convert to simple XML (not the kind that Word exports!). They are all
>> four pages long and pretty consistent in terms of structure, and paragraph
>> styles are used for the most part, though not character styles. If you were
>> me, what methods would you look at?
>>
>> I have used structured FM for years and am familiar with DITA and DocBook.
>> I
>> know that there is a route from Word doc > FrameMaker > Structured
>> FrameMaker > XML that would involve creating a conversion table, a DTD, and
>> a structured application. I have done that in the past, though it was a few
>> years ago. I realise that it would mean a lot of up-front work to get it
>> working, as well as ensuring that styles are used fully and consistently in
>> my source documents.
>>
>> But is that what you would recommend?
>>
>> I have FM11. Would a later version of FM add anything to that?
>>
>> Or is there a non-FrameMaker route that I am unaware of? I have done a web
>> search but not come up with much. Is there a route via HTML or XHTML?
>>
>> What about MIF2Go? I understand that it still works with FM11, but is it
>> capable of converting to XML?
>>
>> Any and all ideas would be welcome. I value your input as it will help me
>> avoid a lot of dead ends.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>>
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