Release of XMLmind Word To XML v1.10

June 20, 2023

Submitted by Hussein SHAFIE, XMLmind Software.

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Enhancements:

Upgraded XMLmind Web Help Compiler (whc for short) to version 3.5.0, which supports the new corporate layout in addition to the classic and simple layouts.
Upgraded XMLResolver to version 5.2.0.
"FlatLaf Look and Feel" add-on: updated FlatLaf to version 3.1.1. (On Linux, the FlatLaf light theme is used as the default Look & Feel of desktop application w2x-app.)
XMLmind Word To XML, which passed all non-regression tests, is now officially supported on the Java™ 20 platform.

Bug fixes:

XMLmind Word To XML did not support pictures cropped using MS-Word Crop tool. This bug is fixed now but with some limitations: linked (i.e. not embedded in the DOCX file) images cannot be cropped by w2x; SVG images or images automatically converted to SVG (e.g. WMF images) cannot be cropped by w2x.
“Outcropped pictures”, that is, adding a margin around a picture using MS-Word Crop tool, are supported too.
Standard or custom headings having an outline level > 6 were not correctly processed. For example, when these headings were numbered, they were converted to (semantic XHTML) a numbered list containing a single item.
Standard or custom headings having an outline level equal to 9, which means: no outline level, were not correctly processed. For example, a TOCHeading containing "Table of Contents", followed by the table of contents automatically generated by MS-Word, followed by a Heading1 containing "Introduction" were converted to (semantic XHTML) "<section><h1>Table of Contents</h1><p>Introduction</p>...". This quite common sequence of paragraphs is now converted to "<p>Table of Contents</p><section><h1>Introduction</h1>...".
A DOCX file ending with a bibliography and containing footnotes or/and endnotes cause w2x to generate invalid DocBook and DITA files.
The case where the paragraph containing a picture is given a Caption style, a not so uncommon MS-Word user mistake, was not gracefully handled.

XMLmind Word To XML can automatically convert DOCX files to:

Clean, styled, valid HTML (single page or multi-page HTML, Web Help, EPUB) looking very much like the source DOCX file.
Unstyled, but structured and valid, DITA bookmap, map, topic, DocBook (including V5.1 assembly), XHTML (single page or multi-page HTML, Web Help, EPUB) or XML conforming to your custom schema.

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