Tool to convert Word and / or Excel docs to XML?

Subject: Tool to convert Word and / or Excel docs to XML?
From: "Hart, Geoff" <Geoff-H -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:40:06 -0500

Phoebe Minias wonders: <<Does anyone know of a tool to convert Word or Excel
docs to XML?>>

I don't have any experience with it, but Mark Baker, a former (or current)
techwhirler provided the following url a while back:

"Use Rick Geimer's free RTF2XML (available at
www.omnimark.com/develop/contributed/index.html)..."

The URL no longer seems to produce the desired document, but the OmniMark
site is still up and running, and you should be able to find the utility
there with a bit of digging.

Note, however, that the mere ability to convert a document to XML isn't
sufficient. If you haven't planned the document from the start so that it
follows the XML approach, you're not going to produce a document that works
well in XML. And unfortunately, planning useful XML documents takes more
thought than simply mapping heading level 1 to a corresponding XML tag. But
that's another question entirely...

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