Bug#638592: ITP: libmsoffice-word-html-writer-perl -- module for writing MsWord documents in HTML format
Package: wnpp
Owner: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Severity: wishlist
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* Package name : libmsoffice-word-html-writer-perl
Version : 1.00
Upstream Author : Laurent Dami <laurent.dami@etat.ge.ch>
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/MsOffice-Word-HTML-Writer/
* License : Artistic or GPL-1+
Programming Lang: Perl
Description : module for writing MsWord documents in HTML format
MsOffice::Word::HTML-Writer is one way to programatically generate documents
targeted for Microsoft Word (MsWord).
MsWord can read documents encoded in native binary format, in Rich Text
Format (RTF), in WordML (an XML dialect), or -- maybe this is less known --
in HTML, with some special markup for pagination and other MsWord-specific
features. Such HTML documents are often in several parts, because attachments
like images or headers/footers need to be in separate files; however, since
it is more convenient to carry all data in a single file, MsWord also
supports the "MHTML" format (or "MHT" for short), i.e. an encapsulation of a
whole HTML tree into a single file encoded in MIME multipart format. This
format can be generated interactively from MsWord by calling the "SaveAs"
menu and choosing the .mht extension.
MsOffice::Word::HTML::Writer helps you to programatically generate MsWord
documents in MHT format. The advantage of this technique is that one can rely
on standard HTML mechanisms for layout control, such as styles, tables, divs,
etc -- of course this markup can be produced using your favorite HTML module.
The added value of MsOffice::Word::HTML::Writer is to help building the MIME
multipart file, and provide some abstractions for representing
MsWord-specific features (headers, footers, fields, etc.). This is probably
the most convenient way for programmatic document generation.
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