[thelist] programming question

[David Siedband]

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.

--
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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