RE; [thelist] programming question

[MILLER David R.]

MS offered a free utility to convert Word docs to XML called Word2XML.exe. VB source code was included. However, I can find no trace of it now on MSDN. Maybe you can find it somewhere.

It's a bit buggy and produces verbose output, but I've had success reprocessing its output using XSLT or another program to produce the XML I want.

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David R. Miller
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Original message

Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 18:55:34 -0700
From: Diane Soini <dianesoini at earthlink.net>
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] programming question
Message: 13

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