AbiWord
Converting Word Documents to XML
2012-12-07T05:57:00Z
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This is an example document to demonstrate how you can use the Abiword word processing program to convert Microsoft Word Docs to XML, then process the results using PHP.
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Abiword is an open source word processor. It runs on Linux. You can invoke it with some command line options to do various things. One of those things is to convert a document into XML and exit. (You can also convert to HTML).
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It’s easy in Ubuntu Linux.
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Log in
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Run apt-get
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Confirm download.
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From the command line.
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The end.