Re: XML to MS Word

On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 21:16:14 -0600 incoming <incoming@josephguhlin.com> wrote: > I'd go with RTF or PDF. I know there is a way to do PDF from inside of > PHP. That's the best you're going to get I think. PDF are done with FOP and they work perfectly well. > Even AbiWord and kword > have a difficult time with .doc files, whether reading or writing.(I > don't think kword writes, been away from the word processor for awhile, > weeee). This is why I was guessing this: Linux desktop application have this difficulty for the reason they are Open Sources and have nothing MS inside. Now, whoever would want a word file from our server would arrive to there with MS Office installed locally. Would there be a way to count on it and output some XML/XSLT with MS Office specific headers so the MS Word rendering is being done on client? This would be the killer. Am I dreaming? -- Maxim Maletsky maxim@php.net > > Hope this helps. > > -bahwi > > Maxim Maletsky wrote: > > >So, questions are: > > > >1. How doable is it creating a MS Word file from XML data being based on > >Linux? > > > >2. Can XSL do that somehow combined with somewhat? > > > >3. Any relevant experiences and case studies? Anyone? > > > >4. Articles? Web resources? Discussions? > > > >5. A wild guess: can simple XSL be outputted with MS Word specific > >output headers/meta tags to then let MS Office do the rest? (client-based?). > >I found something about Smart Tags but got soon compatibility doubts. > > > > > >Thanks, > > > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >