[thelist] programming question
David Siedband
david at calteg.org
Fri May 14 12:22:29 CDT 2004
One workaround that might be worth considering is using a delimiter on
the fields like ':'
Then you can import the data into excel as delimited, manipulate it
there, and save as XML.
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David
Oceanic Sky New Media
http://www.oceanicsky.com
On May 13, 2004, at 6:55 PM, Diane Soini wrote:
> I'm afraid to ask this, but I need to write some kind of script to
> read a Word doc (I'll require people to save it as text) and transform
> the text to xml. But a web server will not be involved. This will need
> to be done on a Windows network drive. What do I write the script in?
> It should be easy for people to use. Not a command line program, if
> possible. My biggest ignorance is that I don't know much about
> Windows. I usually do UNIX and Mac, and on these I'm just a hack. Can
> I use perl? Should I make a java applet? Or maybe I should just find a
> web server at the company I could use and do it that way? Probably
> easier for me.
>
> Diane
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