Information Research Weblog

On 9/18/05, Tom Wilson said:

>Why can't Microsoft do decent conversion from Word to xhtml? Their
>conversion programs are rubbish and don't even take note of properly
>formatted Word documents using different levels of heading - everything
>is converted into mindless tags with lots of mso (Microsoft specific)
>tags. Even the so-called 'filtered' version is crap.

I agree that it's crap, and causes an awful lot of headaches for the
purists (myself included).

On the other hand, they designed their HTML conversion to allow you to
export to html and then read it back into Word again without losing much
of the original formatting. HTML alone wouldn't be able to do that.

Seth