[sword-devel] Converting documents with OpenOffice

[Greg Hellings]

Manfred,

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:54 AM, Manfred Bergmann <bergmannmd at web.de> wrote:
> Hi Daniel.
>
> That works for XML based document formats like ODT and the new XML
> based Formats from Microsoft.
> But might not work for older .doc documents which some Bible sources
> are based on still.

Can't you just open the sources in Word and then save out to a .docx
format?  If you lack Office 2007 to do so, I have a copy through
school and could help you out with that.  If it's a continuous,
on-going deal, you might be able to just open them in OO, save to .odt
format, and move on from there?

--Greg

>
>
> Regards,
> Manfred
>
>
>
> Am 23.09.2008 um 08:05 schrieb Daniel Holmlund:
>
>> Hi Manfred,
>>
>> I work full time on the conversion of various document types to and
>> from OpenDocument format.  The best way I've found to approach this
>> is simply to use your favorite programming language to unzip the ODF
>> document and launch an XSLT stylesheet to do the transformation.  I
>> think this was much simpler than trying to rap my head around UNO.
>>
>> - Daniel Holmlund
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Manfred Bergmann
>> <bergmannmd at web.de> wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I was searching for a way to convert source documents to XHTML or
>> other formats automated.
>> OpenOffice offers a way to do this using your prefered language using
>> UNO (Universal Network Objects).
>>
>> For Java I found the easiest way is to install the OpenOffice NetBeans
>> plugin and create a OpenOffice Client project.
>> Everything will be automatically setup and once you know how the
>> plugin does it, it can be done in any IDE.
>> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice_NetBeans_Integration
>>
>> On the wiki is also some more general information about the OOo SDK
>> and how the UNO bridge works.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Manfred
>>
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