and here's a reminder that MSHTML is not usually accessible - so
working within Word might not be the best way to produce what is
required ... unless the pages are run through a filter to clean them
up before they are used
Liddy
On 20/07/2005, at 12:26 AM, Weibel,Stu wrote:
> Colleagues here at OCLC Research have done some work with the Research
> Pane feature in MS Word that may be useful and interesting to others.
> Basically, their work leverages this feature in Word to allow
> importation of schemas and editing of xml instance data for export.
> They have agreed to put together a few slides illustrating what they
> have done and share them with this list. Look for it later this week.
>
> stu
>
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> Subject: Re: adaptable texts (tool)?
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>
>> Right now, it appears that the only tool available to create a
>> structured text is MS Word/Outline. However, when you save it as
>> HTML,
>>
>
>
>> the result is clunky and full of (undesirable) MS proprietary markup
>> that requires so much rework that it is quicker to write the HTML
>> from
>>
>
>
>> scratch (ditto the XML).
>>
>
> One problem is that word cannot write HTML, it writes out "MSHTML".
>
>
>> This would seem like such a basic thing that we all should be able to
>> create adaptable texts with multiple manifestations that there
>> must be
>>
>
>
>> something out there - any ideas?
>>
>
> CSS would go a long way towards making the content visible; the
> other's
> aren't really doable as generics unless everyone agrees what the
> HTML or
> RDF is supposed to look like in advance. For personal use, SAX
> would be
> the simplest way to filter XML Into other formats on the fly (e.g.,
> XML::SAX::Base).
>
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