Convert from .doc to XML

NiChE

Hi.

I was wondering if is there an open source solution for the following:

I need to process some .doc files, one at a time. These .doc files are generated by some automated process, so it has an "static format". The user just uploads the file with some form. What i need is to load these .doc files and parse them or convert them to XML, and from XML to records in a database, if possible.

Basically, what i need is to be able to make reports querying the database, which has been populated with the data given by the .doc files or directly from the XML files.

I'm not sure on how to proceed on this.

Any help is appreciated.

Bye.

Weedpacket

These are Microsoft Word documents? That would be a silly format to be using.

NiChE wrote:
What i need is to load these .doc files and parse them or convert them to XML, and from XML to records in a database, if possible.

If the file format is at all sensible it sounds like it would be easier to just parse them and put the data directly into the database. Unless there is some step missing from this description it sounds like a case of using XML just for the sake of using XML. (If XML is being used at all, the most sensible place for it would be the format of these generated files.)

NiChE

Actually, for the sake of this project, putting the data directly in the database is also an option.

I really can't change the files, since there are historical data and this machine produces this output, sorry.

What i really don't know is how to read this files and populate a database form these files.

And yes, microsoft word files is a silly format. :queasy: