From: Gary Britt 

I believe MS has a free download of doc template that if loaded with word
filters the saving of html files and strips out the MSOffice stuff.  I have
the filter, but haven't had the occasion to use it so don't know how well
it works.  Its available as an add-on/utility on the MS Office section of
Microsoft.com.  Its called something like htmfilter.dot or just Filter.dot.

Gary

Ad wrote:
> Mike N. wrote:
>> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:07:49 -0500, mike  wrote:
>>
>>> Redmond explains its decision as such: "A big thing we heard from
>>> customers is that they wanted the richness of the editing experience
>>> they were used to from Word integrated throughout Outlook. While
>>> Internet Explorer 7.0 is great, it was never intended to be an editing
>>> tool," it said in a Knowledge Base article.
>>
>>    They're not living in the real world.   I've never heard anyone
say "I
>> want to add some Word crap to my email message".
>
> tell me about it we have to absorb "Word-ML" from old Word docs (i.e.
> save the file as HTML & then post to an auto-munging servlet wot turns
> it into proper XHTML so we can incorporate it into XML model files...
>
>
> & it was painful beyond belief......including such lovely bit as :
>
> // set all class atts with MsoNormal to empty string
>         // //.[{at}class='MsoNormal']/{at}class
>
>         String xpathQ = "//.[{at}class='MsoNormal']/{at}class";
>         List attribs = XMLUtil.getNodesListXpathDoc(xpathQ, xmlSource);
>         for (Iterator it = attribs.iterator(); it.hasNext();) {
>             Node node = (Node) it.next();
>             node.setNodeValue("");
>         }
>
>
> Adam

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