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Re: Can you help me decipher these instructions

Subject: Re: Can you help me decipher these instructions
From: "Peter Neilson" <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:51:49 -0400

When working with generated xml files (which can look imposingly ugly) I always view them with emacs, and use the emacs command "sgml-pretty-print" which puts end-of-line and indents in the right places for human viewing.

If you don't know emacs, some programmer-type person locally, already known to you, is a rabid emacs fan. Find and befriend this person.

On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 06:40:33 -0400, Debbie Hemstreet <D_Hemstreet -at- rambam -dot- health -dot- gov -dot- il> wrote:

This is quite helpful! Thanks loads. I'm going to give it a try.

Debbie

-----Original Message-----
From: Jo H [mailto:usenet -dot- joh -at- googlemail -dot- com]
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 1:39 PM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Cc: Debbie Hemstreet
Subject: Re: Can you help me decipher these instructions

Hello Deborah,

When you save a Word document in Open Document Format (.odt), there's
a tagged text file hidden in the .odt file. Technically, an odt file
is a zip archive serving as a container for different files (content,
metadata, images etc.) that make up the document.

You can find the tagged text as follows:

1. Save a copy of the Word document in Open Document Format (.odt).

2. Add the extension .zip to the filename, e.g. Document1.odt ->
Document1.odt.zip.

3. Extract the file named content.xml from the .odt.zip file. The
content.xml can serve as a tagged text file.

In the content.xml file, "text:h" tags indicate a heading, "text:p"
tags indicates a paragraph, and "text:span" tags indicates a specially
marked portion of text within a paragraph. The associated styles,
which may or may not be relevant, are named in the "text:style-name"
attributes of the respective tag.

By the way, you could extract a similar file from Word's own .docx
format. However, the corresponding Word\document.xml contains more
information and has a more complex structure.


Kind regards
JoH
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