DOCX2HTM     for   DOS
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This is a quick and dirty attempt to grab the "important" stuff from one
of Microsoft's .DOCX files. All necessary files are in the .zip package.

  Note:   Updated versions of DOCX2HTM.EXE, REL2DOC.EXE and TABL2DOC.EXE:
                   http://www.ausreg.com/files/docx2htm/docx2htm.exe
                   http://www.ausreg.com/files/docx2htm/rel2doc.exe
                   http://www.ausreg.com/files/docx2htm/tabl2doc.exe

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  Syntax:      DOCX2HTM.EXE     filename.doc(x)
        then:  REL2DOC.EXE                      (adds links to any graphics)
        then:  TABL2DOC.EXE                     (renders tables)

  
  Requires:    Fold.exe, texrep.exe and either 7za.exe or unzip.exe in the 
               same directory or in the path.
               docx2htm.dat MUST be in the same directory.


  Use:         Place the offending .doc(x) file in the same directory,
               and (from the commandline) type:
                        docx2htm    filename
                        rel2doc     <enter>
                        tabl2doc    <enter>


  Action:      Docx2htm.exe uses 7za.exe or unzip.exe to unzip the in-file,
               with NO directory structure. It calls texrep.exe and fold.exe 
               to separate out the XML tags and to shorten long lines, then 
               goes through the file DOCUMENT.XML line by line, editing some 
               of the XML tags to useable HTML tags, and writes them to the 
               output file DOC2HTM.HTM.

               Rel2doc.exe searches DOCUMENT.REL for graphic files and their
               ID-tags, then places their links into DOC2HTM.HTM.

               Tabl2doc searches DOC2HTM.HTM for <table> links, and attempts 
               to trans-code them into HTML. It is mostly successful with
               simple tables, but is unable, at this stage, to do a perfect 
               job on tables within tables.


               NOTE: For large input files, say 200,000 kb and larger, this
               process is unacceptably slow. There may be 100,000 or more
               tags to check, change or delete, so it is never going to be
               a quick job. However, improving the speed is near the top 
               of my todo list.


  Further Development:
               REL2DOC.EXE is a temporary kludge while this function is still
               being developed. Once it is deemed stable, it's code will be
               merged into DOCX2HTM.EXE.

               TABL2DOC.EXE: same as REL2DOC.EXE above.

               The clarity of the derived HTM file depends on the way in
               which OOXML tags are matched to HTML tags. At this stage,
               known xml tags, and some font-size tags, are being processed.
               The number of these will increase as my understanding of 
               this strange language expands.

               Limiting the success (?) of this is going to be the range
               and complexity of this awful file format, in that it includes
               a lot of stuff that really only has a place in word processing,
               spreadsheets, and other such junk.


Ron Clarke
ron@ausreg.com