sorry - you're right .... I was off-target
Liddy
On 20/07/2005, at 1:02 AM, Weibel,Stu wrote:
> We're not talking about html... MS-html or any other.
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> This is about editing structured data (xml) within MS-word.
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 10:58 AM
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> Subject: Re: adaptable texts (tool)?
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> 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
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> Liddy
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> On 20/07/2005, at 12:26 AM, Weibel,Stu wrote:
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>> 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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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: General DCMI discussion list [mailto:DC-
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>> Behalf Of Steven Lembark
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 6:33 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> 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,
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>>> 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
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>>> scratch (ditto the XML).
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>> One problem is that word cannot write HTML, it writes out "MSHTML".
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>>> 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
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>>> something out there - any ideas?
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>> 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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>> --
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