Re: question for the xml-experts

[Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

Hi Thomas,

why don't you take a look at the OpenOffice export function, I saw it's
possible to convert a document to xhtml and this could be a start for  
you.

Wolfgang

Am 14.02.2009 um 18:40 schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz:

> Hi all,
>
> this is not a question about direct technical details, but more of a  
> conceptual problem, and I would love to have your input and ideas on  
> this. I will be editing several edited volumes in my field  
> (humanities, classics). From experience, I know that it's impossible  
> to make scholars in the humanities adhere to standards. Each and  
> every one of them will turn in a paper (most of them written in half  
> a dozen different versions of Word) with its own idiosyncracies. At  
> my last conference, I asked them to please use Unicode for their  
> Greek passages, and I got blank looks and the question "What the  
> hell is Unicode?"
>
> So: I want to extract the content of these papers and process it  
> with ConTeXt. I thought the easiest route might be convert them to  
> OpenOffice odt and then use the content.xml as a starting point.  
> Since the formatting will be unusable anyways, it doesn't make sense  
> to process the odt directly; instead, I want to transform the xml  
> via xslt to a simplified format and then process that with ConTeXt.  
> I have just discovered the tool xalan ( http://xml.apache.org/xalan-c/index.html 
>  ) which allows me to use an xslt style sheet and direct the output  
> to a new file. I will then need to clean up these xml files and  
> write a mkiv xml setup for them.
>
> So for those who know much more about this sort of workflow: does  
> that make sense? Is there any better way to achieve these results,  
> i.e., have the content of a couple of papers in Word and/or rtf  
> format and typeset it in a consistent ConTeXt environment? Is there  
> any tool better than xslt to convert the OpenOffice xml than xslt  
> (anything in lua that can parse xml)? Anything better than xalan to  
> convert xm -> xml? I'm just beginning to plan this, so I'd be most  
> grateful for any pointers.
>
> Thanks for reading this long message, all best
>
> Thomas
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