Subj : Re: Converting .doc to .xml
To   : comp.programming
From : Jordi Cuenca
Date : Sat Oct 08 2005 09:25 am

A very usefull address. I still do not know if it will be enought, but I 
  am sure that I will find there interesting information about my issue ;)

Thank you, Jongware.

Jordi.

[Jongware] wrote:
> Jordi put this forward:
> 
>>I am looking for an already developped tool that can convert Word .doc 
>>files (I do not mind the version) to .xml format.
>>
>>That tool should be a command line tool and I should be able to convert 
>>several files from .doc to .xml and, very important, I should be able to 
>>get the non-text data of the file (I mean, for example, author, last 
>>printing time and so on).
>>
>>The idea I have of it is somethink like:
>>
>>c:\> doc2xml [list of parameters] *.doc *.xml
>>
>>I've been trying with antiword but I did not succeed because it is asking 
>>me for a DTD file that I do not know from where to get it.
> 
> 
> Antiword probably expects you to create the DTD yourself. If you want to use 
> XML you should also look into the DTD story.
> The website http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/12/31/qa.html shows several 
> different approaches to Word -> XML conversion. Note that under the 
> 'comments' there is a sourceforge tool mentioned which can convert RTF; 
> easily exported from Word, including metadata.
> 
> [jongware] 
> 
>

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