Re: Another DITA question

["Edgar D' Souza" <edgar -dot- b -dot- dsouza -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On 6/6/07, Kevin McGowan <thatguy_80 -at- hotmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Before I start this long and boring task...has anyone found a decent
> shortcut? I have tried saving Word files as XML, HTML, etc, but that frankly
> just seems to add layers of confusion. If anyone has any bright ideas,
> please let me know.

I haven't used the product, but YAWCPro (http://www.yawcpro.com/ ) is
supposed to convert Word docs to XML too. Quote: "YAWC ships with
support for the Simplified DocBook XML DTD, but any other DTD can be
supported with a small amount of configuration work."

At US$220 for a single license, it may be a little expensive, unless
you have lots and lots of documents to convert, and this plugin saves
you lots of effort. They also have an evaluation and a Lite version:
http://www.yawcpro.com/download/index.htm

HTH,
Ed.
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