Replace MS Word with Oxygen?

[jbcrouigneau]

Hello,

As a lot of body, we (the company I work for) are not totally satisfied with MS Word.
One of our main concerns is quality of documents, and all the time required to verify them (conformance to corporate layouts in particular).

It is why I'm studying alternatives, such as XML authoring.

At that time, Oxygen seems to be one of the best solutions.
However, I have some important issues to solve :

The most difficult part is to create XSLT for all our corporate templates. Create a good XSLT is painful (even starting from existing frameworks), but a lot of them is a huge project. If we also need to create CSS template for each XSLT, it will probably become too expensive for us.

Consequently, my questions :

Is there a way to automatically generate a CSS from a XSLT (even deprecated)?

Is there a way to easily convert our Word templates to schema+XSLT (probably not in one click, but generate a kind of skeleton)? I mean standard schema+XSLT, not Word XML format.

Does Oxygen plan to upgrade its XSLT editor for something like StyleVision (by you probably know who)? It can give access to XSLT creation and maintenance to a larger public.

Can Oxygen generate ODT or Word XML documents from the same XML source than for other formats (I'm not sure of this point)?

And sorry if my questions have already answers somewhere, I didn't find them. Sorry also for my poor english...

[sorin_ristache]

Hello,

Is there a way to automatically generate a CSS from a XSLT (even deprecated)?

No.

Is there a way to easily convert our Word templates to schema+XSLT (probably not in one click, but generate a kind of skeleton)? I mean standard schema+XSLT, not Word XML format.

The XML document created by the Save action of MS Word is conformant with a Microsoft schema. If you have to store the document content in a different format you need to create a schema for the new format. Oxygen has a visual diagram for editing or creating XML Schema schemas and RELAX NG schemas but cannot convert automatically from one schema to other schema. You have to do this conversion yourself for example with an XSLT stylesheet which you have to create yourself.

Does Oxygen plan to upgrade its XSLT editor for something like StyleVision (by you probably know who)? It can give access to XSLT creation and maintenance to a larger public.

There are no plans for a tool like StyleVision for the short term.

Can Oxygen generate ODT or Word XML documents from the same XML source than for other formats (I'm not sure of this point)?

Oxygen can generate a skeleton for a new XML document that is created based on a specified schema. You need to have a valid schema. Also it can convert the same XML source to different formats with an XSLT stylesheet for every format but it cannot generate automatically the stylesheet.


Regards,
Sorin


Regards,
Sorin