On 10/18/2013 02:56 PM, Niels Grundtvig Nielsen wrote:
I can spend a happy afternoon taking unstructured content out of an .odt
or a .docx file, applying DITA rules for structure and converting the
results to a tightly structured output file I can give back to the
original writer for discussion. But – while layout and formatting are
applied consistently, it all seems to be done on the basis of Normal
plus local overrides. It would be easier to explain structure to the
original writer (and, of course, easier to update the formatting in line
with corporate habits) if conversion generated/applied styles with names
reflecting the elements.
What do you think? I'll understand if you say this approach would take a
lot more effort than it's worth.
Even if we were convinced by the usefulness of this feature, we don't
see any reasonable way to implement it.
Please remember that the .odt and .docx files are generated by an XSLT
stylesheet which generates XSL-FO and then an XSL-FO processor (XMLmind
XSL-FO Converter; see http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/) which
translates this intermediate XSL-FO to the word processor format.
In other words, we don't see how the source DITA elements could be
automatically related to the bunch of styled paragraphs which are
contained in the .odt or .docx result file.
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