On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 21:16:14 -0600 incoming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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> 
> 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,
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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