COnverting Word table to XMl format

[fdde]

Hi all,

I need to do the following:

* Convert a table in DOC format to XML. This could be done using CALS table
format or anything of that sort.

What I find impossible to detect, is the number of tabs in the table and the
spanning in it. When I try saving a DOC in HTM format, I get something like
width=10.67 and so on the HTM file. This cannot be properly represented in
XML. I will need markups to determine the spanning and other cell
information.

Does anybody have a suggestion on how I should go about this?

Many thanks.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Fdde,

If you don't have Word 2003, then I think you'll need to go over HTML. Save
the document as HTML, close it, then process the HTML to XML.

* Convert a table in DOC format to XML. This could be done using CALS table
format or anything of that sort.

What I find impossible to detect, is the number of tabs in the table and the
spanning in it. When I try saving a DOC in HTM format, I get something like
width=10.67 and so on the HTM file. This cannot be properly represented in
XML. I will need markups to determine the spanning and other cell
information.

Does anybody have a suggestion on how I should go about this?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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