I guess, this task is going to be much simpler from Microsoft
side of things. Within their Office XP 2002, one will be able
to save Excel file as XML and Word document as HTML+XML.

Hope that helps,
Glebas

At 00:16 2001.05.17 +1000, you wrote:

>At 09:56 AM 16-05-01 -0400, you wrote:
>>At 07:30 PM 5/16/2001 +1000, Helen Borrie wrote:
>>
>> >I have a reason at the moment to want to write a blob filter for Word
>> >documents. Does anyone know of a doc that explains (with examples) how

to

>> >do that? Is there some kind of API for them? I assume that (on Windows)
>> >the library filters.dll is where they belong - or is it like a udf
>> >library, which you can create under any suitable name and declare to the
>> >database in some fashion?
>>
>>No, I believe there is no such thing. Microsoft published the specs for
>>Word documents briefly, several years ago. They are not currently available
>>except from a site in Russia - Jim may have the URL. He spent nearly a week
>>(with much cursing) learning to reverse engineer a Word document. Unless
>>you're willing to use Word itself as the translator, that filter is going
>>to be a bitch.