[xmljs-users] converting Word docs to xml and dynamically filling a site in xhtml

[Eric H. <eh...@du...>]

Hello,

I'm an xml rookie and am looking for some general guidelines on deploying an
xml parser and using it to pull content from a well-styled Word document
(eventually Quark documents). My overall goal is to create a mechanism that
uses xml to dynamically create and fill pages on a site with xhtml pages.

I post our University's alumni magazine online and am in the process of
converting all pages to xhtml strict. I'm educating myself on schemas, xslt,
etc., to figure out how to automate page creation and introduction of
content to those pages. I'm well versed in CSS and plan to keep presentation
there.

Our University IT group will not install an xml parser on the University's
production server, so I'll have to perform all transformation on our
department's server and manually load the complete online magazine site to
the University server. I also need to maintain an archive of all previous
issues online.

Optimally, I'd like to automate creation of each issues navigation as well.

Any help would be greatly appreciated ... I'd like to avoid using
proprietary solutions (Dreamweaver templates, Cold Fusion) if it's possible
to do the same work with xml.

Thanks ahead of time.


Eric Hobart
Web Developer
University of Denver
Communications & Marketing
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