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Subject: Standard Word 2003 template for converting Wordml -> Docbook
The motivation for this question is that archiving and processing of word documents using xml has been increasing and quite often Docbook is a good choice. (For example journal articles authored in word). It has been my experience so far that writing stylesheets to transform a document from WordML to Docbook is fairly straightforward. However, each organisation has their own set of styles named for their particular operation. That means that a new stylesheet has to be written for every organisation and while the structure is similar there is nonetheless some duplication of effort. A standard word template where the styles have a determined correspondance to a docbook element (even if not 1:1) would have the consequence that only one stylesheet need be written, modulo customisation. It would also save those organisations time by not having to develop their own templates; only some data analysis would be required to ensure that their content can be preserved in docbook. So does such a template exist? if not, I intend to declare one as a starting point for such a standard. It is possible? Are there technical or other reasons that I am missing? Do people agree on it's usefulness? Thanks, Mark.
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