From: Alex Mizrahi
Subject: Re: Free software for parsing/generating MS-Word documents?
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:58:25 +0000
Message-ID: <47b189e5$0$90263$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>

 RMs> Do you know of any free software, written in Java or Common Lisp,
 RMs> which parses and/or generates MS-Word documents?

different versions of MS-Word have different file formats, ranging from 
proprietary binary to RTF to HTML to gzipped XML.
RTF is understood by all Word versions, and is more-or-less easy to work 
with.

i'm not aware about any CL libs to work with RTF, but i bet there are enough 
Java ones. 

From: George Neuner
Subject: Re: Free software for parsing/generating MS-Word documents?
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:05:06 +0000
Message-ID: <1994r35l1n17a9fo31mt8nnodpn0spckbr@4ax.com>

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:58:25 +0200, "Alex Mizrahi"
<········@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

>RTF is understood by all Word versions, and is more-or-less easy to work 
>with.

Page/paragraph formats can be lost between versions.  RTF is really
portable only for text attributes.

George
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