Online Converters

Below are links to two online XML to Word converters, for HTML and DocBook.

• HTML to Word 2000 converter: this form accepts a URL, or pasted HTML text.
• DocBook to Word 2000 converter: this form requires a file to be uploaded.

These converters take the following approach:

1. Convert HTML to XHTML using HTML Tidy
2. Strip out presentation markup (graphic design components such as branding and navigation.
3. Convert markup into Word-2000 compatible XHTML (e.g. h1 becomes <h1 class="MsoTitle">
4. Save as .doc file (although the content is XHTML).
5. Open in Word 2000 or higher and edit.

You can then use YAWC Pro or YAWC Online to convert the content back into XML or HTML.