abi2html 

NB: Due to a change in the ABW file format you will need to upgrade to the
latest version of AbiWord for abi2html to work properly.

Requires
JDK1.3 - http://java.sun.com
Xalan XML parser - http://xml.apache.org

Thankyou for downloading abi2html, I hope you find this program useful.

This is my first Java program so bear with it if things don't work as they should. All bug-reports will be gratefully received.

abi2html is a command line Java program for converting native .abw documents using a custom made XSLT style-sheet, into HTML.

Install

Add this directory to your CLASSPATH
Open up a command line / terminal console
cd to this directory
type,without quotes,: "java abitohtml"
It will then ask you to enter a file name or a directory
e.g.
/home/paul/Abi_Docs - will batch convert any *.abw files to *.html
abidoc.abw - will convert abidoc.abw to abidoc.html if it resides within the same directory as the class file
/home/paul/Abi_Docs/abidoc.abw - will transform abidoc.abw into abidoc.html within the directory specified on the file path
Do so and then press enter
Your .abw documents should have been converted into HTML documents

Web Address Conversion
At the moment abi2html can only transform web address beginnng with http:// into a clickable HTML link.

Limitations
At the moment you have to run the command within this directory because this is where the program is looking for the stylesheet.

You can however batch transform a whole directory just by specifying the directory path. The transformed files will then be created in that directory.

Any problems you encounter with the stylesheet please let me know, or if its not transforming a particular document then e-mail me the document and I'll see
what I can do.

Tested and works under Linux and Windows.


All comments, queries, bugs welcome,
dazzlepm@lineone.net

As usual this software is released under the GNU GPL and comes with no guarantees or warranties.