Ensure the standard-conformance of OOXML-documents created from scratch.
See also the two Threads concerning this topic:

• https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...6/#post6194391
• https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...nt-4175650279/

A styled version of this document: http://www.uplawski.eu/articles/Linu...ate_ooxml.html

Current Word-processors read and write different XML-based file-formats. The standards which are more or less implemented by these programs, are OOXML and/or OpenDocument. I write “more or less”, because for diverse reasons, Office-suites differ in the way that they compose documents of one certain type. The variations can result in a completely valid document or one that diverts from the standard and the existing schema-definitions (xsd). There is always the risk that

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In short, I have written an XSL-stylesheet to transform the XML-code from an OOXML document (M$ Word® format docx or SoftMaker®'s tmdx) into a reStructuredText file.

The current edition produces enough formatting for a man-page, although some enhancements should allow the inclusion of tables.

In the original OOXML