XML to Word transformation

Hi All

I have an XML file which gets transformed into HTML via an XSL stylesheet. The HTML file is in a tabular format. this is all good.

What I want to do is perform a similar transformation of the xml file but have it directly output to MS word - any ideas on the best way to do this?

tia

I do now how to transform XML into Word format because a Word document has a proprietary format.
What about opening the html file in Word and save it as doc?

what i'm using is the VB DOM to open and transform the xml file (using XSL) , the result is saved in an HTML format. I then use VB word application objects to open the html file in a word session, however when i do this all i get is the HTML source not the 'pretty' stuff.
The reason I need to be able to open the formatted html in word is so i can muck around with page breaks for printing purposes.
if i open the html file in an internet explorer session it all looks great

not sure what I'm doing wrong....

Hey - I have been trying to figure out how to save my HTML to a file with .html extension and not just render it to the browser upon request. My XSl is transforming the entire site properly but I have not found a way to "save a copy" of the resulting html that is rendered. Do you mind showing me what you are talking about in the VB Dom transformation?

Well, if you have some time and feel like learning java, you can use Cocoon: http://cocoon.apache.org/2.0/ to do the conversion. It has an output stream for Word (and I think Excel) documents.

thanks for that - looks like I now have a choice of the lesser of a few evils as I did manage to find an offical Word Markup Language reference (attached) - on a quick glance it looks fairly extensive and Java still might be the go.

I also came a cross a number of sites which also might be of interest to anyone else going along the XML -> word route

http://www.xmlsoftware.com - has lots of XML related conversion tools XML2RTF, DB2XML, OniMark, ASP2XML etc

http://www.scriptura-xsl.com/index.html - these guys have a product which uses XSL-FO to produce reports in multiple formats
- means learning XSL-FO and WordML tho

//Saving the File...
fso = new ActiveXObject ("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
strFilePath = "C:\\Document.html"
ts = fso.CreateTextFile (strFilePath, true, true);
ts.Write(tmp);
ts.Close();

//Opening it in Word...
word = new ActiveXObject("word.application");
word.Visible = true;
word.Documents.Open("C:\\Document.html");