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upCast RT - 7.1.2

Word/RTF to XML converter.

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This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	7.1.2
Release Date:	2009-05-21
License:	Update
Downloads (this version):	266
Downloads (all versions):	16,399
Price:	$500.00

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Product Description:

upCast enables you to use Microsoft Word as an authoring application for XML documents. Take advantage of the widespread availability and familiar user interface of Word or any other RTF savvy office application for structured document authoring. upCast offers a cost-effective way to reuse existing tools for gaining all the benefits of a standardized markup language: XML.

What's new in this version:

New Features

Color-code log messages in live log window: FATAL = red+bold, ERROR = red, WARN = orange, INFO = green, DEBUG = dark grey, VERBOSE = grey, DETAIL = light grey
Added variable modifiers for file extension: #urlextension, #localextension
UPL: Implemented new functions codepoints-to-string( $cp as List ) as String and string-to-codepoints( $s as String ) as List
new custom XSLT Extension function ilext:getUnicodeFromFontchar to translate the tuple (font name, index) -> Unicode codepoint using the font configuration table of the executing pipeline.
new custom XSLT extension function int parseInteger( string, radix )
EXPERIMENTAL: Implemented nesting of upCast variable notation. E.g., you now can do something like ${include:${pl:SourceFile}} to replace the outermost variable reference with the contents of the file with the name as in the pipeline variable SourceFile. This requires you to know what you are doing to get the replacements right and not breaking the syntax.
UPL: New function fs-create(...) to create folders or (empty) files
New variable realm: environment. See the manual for all the details.

Changes & Improvements

Updated DocBook Article template supplied documentation/sample document.
Moved the log entry type string more to the message start where it is still vertically aligned
Unified use of UPPERCASE for constant names in UPL except for run-module(), where uppercase constants would clash with their ID names in upCast manual). For backward-compatibility, we support any mixture of case in constants names (=equalsIgnoreCase()), though lower-case is deprecated
XMLE: Made serializer Unicode surrogate pairs-aware
Documented the use of 0xe003 for soft hyphen, and its default translation to 0xad by adding a respective NOTE section at the beginning of the RTF Importer module description
Moved scope of "user cancel" flag from app to pipeline so that individual pipelines can be stopped and clicking "stop" does not halt all running pipelines.
Include XHTML 1.1 DTD by default with application distribution
New pipeline (Cmd-N) now always includes the Pipeline Variables module. This makes the default setting for modules like the RTF Importer, when just added, work automatically without an "variable undefined" error.
Change name of $pipeline:Uid to $pipeline:PipelineInstanceId to better describe what the value is. For backward compatibility, we need to keep $pipeline:Uid as well.
Extended Tooltip displaying time in Simple View to 30 seconds
Password-protected ucdocs should be opened in Simple View mode always, regardless of their state at saving time

Fixes

The DocBook article pipeline template does not delete its temporary files.
DocBook template: Headings in tables lose their markup completely instead of becoming a para
Simple View defs with a popup without a internal-values property will throw a NPE on load
Timestamp output missing in log entries in live log
root-catalog" file not included with OS X application build
RTFE: "Frame overrides cell border" option handling fixed
'orange' color keyword not supported by CSS parser
CSS: rgb() color spec with percentage values not handled correctly
LOCAL variable realm not resolved correctly when referred-to parameter contained again variables
Fixed handling of a missing license
CSS parser: Escapes must be resolved before any further processing (e.g. comparisons). This applies to selector components, property values and property names alike. E.g., the identifier "te\st" is the same as "test", semantically.
CSS Parser: fix bug in alias property resolution algorithm
Saving an ucdoc for the first time does not make it an entry in the recent documents menu

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9

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Fantastic - Version: 5.4.2, 1/25/2006 02:55PM PST

a.mjb

If you need to transform Word to anything useful, this is for you, its helped me many times on very big projects, good company, good program!!

Worked well - Version: 5.2.1, 12/23/2005 08:34AM PST

gregK

Our Vienna-based organization needed a Word to XML converter and fast. This product was reasonably priced and the Word to DocBook converter fit the bill; it ditched most of the WordML crap while leaving enough for us to transform usefully.

The company seems to care about the product, offering good support and timely updates. This is definitely worth a look for anyone concerned with Word to XML conversion.

Nice GUI, but has problems.. - Version: 4.0.1, 9/18/2003 04:38PM PST

Tony the Tech

This might be useful for some document processing I need to do. Tried it out on a simple rtf file. The docbook output left rtf tags in the output (it says experimental, so I guess that's OK). The standard XML output seemed OK, but seemed to have less structure than could be obtained from the document. The problem was that the RTF file was left open And a huge chunk of my memory is gone after the program has quit. I guess I'll be putting this one in the trash...

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Nice GUI, but has problems..