[Athen] xml to MS Word?

Joseph Sherman Joseph.Sherman at cuny.edu
Thu May 14 07:58:15 PDT 2015


I sent this to Susan privately, but thought I'd also share with the group. Hopefully this will be useful.



They are Bookshare xml files. You can try the options below from Bookshare help site.<https://www.bookshare.org/cms/help-center/how-can-i-convert-bookshare-books-text> I don't have any bookshare files to test this on.



Or, if those don't work, since Shakespeare is public domain we have more options. MIT<http://shakespeare.mit.edu/> contains The Complete Works of William Shakespeare in html/text. You can also download the Complete Works in ePub, Kindle, or text from Gutenberg<http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/100>




>From Bookshare, Some of our users convert the books by using the .XML file:




Option 1:

If you have MS Word 2007 or later, open the XML file associated with the desired book. Then choose the Save As option from the File Menu and save the document as a text or PDF file.



Option 2:

The first step is to rename the XML file with an HTML file extension. To do this:

1. Right click the file

2. Choose the Rename option

3. Change the XML file extension to HTML

4. Answer Yes when prompted with the warning

Note that if your PC doesn't show file extensions, turn off "hide file extensions for known file types" in Folder Options.

To copy the text into a text editor:

1. Open the newly renamed HTML file in your web browser

2. Press Control + A to highlight the text

3. Press Control + C to copy

4. Open your desired text editor application such as Microsoft Word

5. Press Control + V to paste

6. Save the newly created text file in the format you desire





Joseph Sherman

Accessibility Specialist

CUNY Computing & Information Services

395 Hudson St 6FL, 6-236

646-664-2167| Joseph.Sherman at cuny.edu



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From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Maria Bohn
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Subject: Re: [Athen] xml to MS Word?



Hi Susan - what I have done is open the xml file and copy/paste into Word and use the find/replace option to remove all tags. Im not sure if that is what you are looking for and I know it requires some extra work.





Maria Bohn

Senior Resource Accommodation Specialist Assistive Technology Office of Specialized Services Bergen Community College



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Subject: Re: [Athen] xml to MS Word?



To be clear, this is Shakespeare. So formatting is kind of important. And yes, the student knows already that listening to an electronic voice doing Shakespeare is going to be...off. But he's still trying to figure things out, and wants to try everything. Who am I to argue? At least it is summer and we all have some time to putter around with things. The student has been great to work with, and those are the kind I like to go the extra mile for.



And Alexa, you don't want me off my coffee! LOL



-Susan




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