Re: Word 97 import function

Justin Willoughby (justin@justinw.net)
Wed, 8 Sep 1999 09:10:18 -0400

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On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 09:50:49AM -0400, Bernard Burns wrote:
> Hey great job. I was having problemsimporting Word docs before 0.7.5.
> This seems to work very nicely now. I'm able to open moderately complex
> documents and work with them (though there are some formatting issues).
> This is more than enough to make it my daily word processor. Later Word,
> you're history.
> I've also seen talk of XML support. Is this going to happen soon? This
> would be pretty nice to have. I have to admit that I like WordPerfect
> office 2000 and the way it can deal with both SGML and XML. I would love
> to see this level of support in AbiWord.

Actual XML is the format AbiWord uses as its native format. I don't know
why you could not just use the document created by AbiWord as an XML file.
Perhaps you would want to clean up some of the comments.

Go ahead and take a look at a saved AbiWord file, its not in binary
format like Word or their product.

- Justin

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