The conversion routine is written in Visual Basic for Applications and is included within a word document, called “Text to XML Converter.doc”. It will only work on Windows machines. It is necessary to obtain this file and a few other supplementary ones for the conversion to run successfully. To set up one’s machine properly for conversion, do the following:
With these documents in place, one can next proceed to actually convert a Word document into an XML document.
Once the above documents are in hand and in their proper places, you can proceed with the process of actually converting a Microsoft Word document into an XML file. This, of course, assumes that the text to be marked up has already been entered into Word, proofed and so forth. From that point, the conversion process is as follows: