Hi,
Thanks for all the helpful information.
it may interest you to know that bookshare membership is now available
internationally. I am a Canadian member for example, and bookshare is
arranging membership structures on a country by country basis.
might wish to visit bookshare.org to see how things stand for yours now.
I will see if we have that tool here on shellworld, since indeed the
transform xfl file you reference is included with every book.
If we have it here, I will play around to see how the quality is. I have
a door already, but one can never have too many paths to information.
Thanks again,
Karen
On Sun, 8 Dec 2013, Geoff Shang wrote:
Hi,
I'm not a Bookshare member as I'm not in the USA. But if what I've seen is a
typical representation of Bookshare books, it's trivial to convert these to
HTML.
Assuming your book has the daisyTransform.xsl file included with it, and it's
probably easy enough to get hold of if it doesn't, you can use xsltproc to
convert it like so:
xsltproc -o <outputfile.html> daisyTransform.xsl <inputfile.xml>
When I first saw this thread, I was wondering if you were wanting to convert
Word 2007/2010 docx files. These files are really zip files with an XML
document and a bunch of related files.
There is a transform called docs2html.xsl (don't remember if that's just what
I called it or if it was originally called this) which you can use with
xsltproc and unzip to convert docx files to html.
A search for docx2html xsl will turn up a bunch of results, and I'm of course
happy to send the XSL to anyone who wants it.
I have a one-line shell script that takes the docx file as an argument and
produces an HTML file with the same basename. The line of code is:
unzip -p "$1" word/document.xml |xsltproc -o "`basename "$1" .docx`.html"
docx2html.xsl -
Note that this assumes a document created by Microsoft Word. Word always
calls the XML file word/document.xml but there's no reason for it to be
called this and apparently some other software packages use different names.
finally, while installing xsltproc on this box just now to verify all this, I
also noticed a Debian package called xmlto which is apparently a front-end to
xsltproc and such that's meant to take some of the work out of all this.
I've not tried it though.
HTH,
Geoff.
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