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)?
> 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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