From: Gary Britt 

Its not built in to Word 2000, but the filter I described is available to do it.

Gary

Rich wrote:
>    The functionality to filter Office attributes is built into Word.
> Adam is being deceptive.  The bit he is stripping is standard HTML and
> CSS, not one of the standards compliant Office attributes that use XML
> namespaces.
>
> Rich
>
>
>     "Gary Britt"      > wrote in message
>     news:45c21be2$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>     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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