Kazuko O. wrote:
Thank you so much for the investigations about Japanese style names.
My pleasure.
If custom Japanese style names are not translated to automatically
generated names and displayed as is having Japanese characters,
It may be better than now.
But even if we can map custom Word styles to DITA elements,
many parts in the converted DITA topic files will have to be manually edited.
It's true that if you don't map custom Word styles to DITA elements,
*many* parts of the converted DITA topic files will have to be manually
edited BUT if you map custom Word styles to DITA elements, *few* parts
of the converted DITA topic files will have to be manually edited.
For example, it may be difficult for dl elements or note elements to be mapped
to Word styles.
Please note that we have already done this in our own "XMLmind Word To
XML Manual" and it works just fine.
Please take a look at:
http://www.xmlmind.com/w2x/_distrib/doc/manual/manual.docx
and at its automatic conversion to a DITA topic:
http://www.xmlmind.com/w2x/_distrib/doc/manual/manual_topic.dita
The scripts needed to customize the output of XMLmind Word To XML are:
--> http://www.xmlmind.com/w2x/_distrib/doc/manual/topic_options.txt
---
-p edit.prune.preserve p-ProgramListing
-p edit.inlines.convert " c-Code code ! c-Abbrev abbr "
-p edit.blocks.convert "p-Term dt g:id='dl' g:container='dl' !
p-Definition dd g:id='dl' g:container='dl' ! p-ProgramListing span
g:id='pre' g:container='pre'"
-pu edit.after.blocks customize/notes.xed
-p transform.root-topic-id manual
-o topic
-t customize/custom_topic.xslt
---
Notice how simple it is to map Word custom styles "Term" and
"Definition" to an XHTML dl, dd, dt. Once this is done, the stock XSLT
stylesheets translate this XHTML to a DITA dl. This mapping can be done
using our style mapper
(http://www.xmlmind.com/w2x/_distrib/doc/w2x_app_help/options_wizard_style_mapping_screen.html)
Mapping notes indeed requires more efforts because in our use case, a
note starts with string "Note:".
--> http://www.xmlmind.com/w2x/_distrib/doc/manual/customize/notes.xed
---
namespace "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";;
namespace html = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";;
namespace g = "urn:x-mlmind:namespace:group";
for-each /html/body//p[get-class("p-Note")] {
delete-text("note:\s*", "i");
if content-type() <= 1 and not(@id) {
delete();
} else {
remove-class("p-Note");
set-attribute("g:id", "note_group_member");
set-attribute("g:container", "div class='role-note'");
}
}
group()
---
-->
http://www.xmlmind.com/w2x/_distrib/doc/manual/customize/custom_topic.xslt
---
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";
exclude-result-prefixes="h">
<xsl:import href="w2x:xslt/topic.xslt"/>
<xsl:template match="h:div[@class = 'role-note']">
<note>
<xsl:call-template name="processCommonAttributes"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</note>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="h:code">
<tt>
<xsl:call-template name="processCommonAttributes"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</tt>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
---
In a nutshell, you can *really* automate the conversion of DOCX to DITA if:
1) Your authors all use the same MS-Word styles and use them consistently.
2) You, the expert, agree to spend some time learning how to customize
the output of XMLmind Word to XML. See "Customizing the semantic XML
files generated by w2x"
http://www.xmlmind.com/w2x/_distrib/doc/manual/index.html#customizing_semantic_xml
Therefore, my company will use this add-on without mapping custom styles to
DITA elements.
Then we consider that there is no need for us in the short term to
improve the way custom Japanese style names are displayed by the "Add"
dialog of "MS-Word style to XML element map"
(http://www.xmlmind.com/w2x/_distrib/doc/w2x_app_help/style_mapping_editor.html)
I appreciate your cooperation.
Thanks,
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