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>To: address@hidden >From: address@hidden (etienne baranshamaje) >Subject: Liquid data file conversion (netcdf) >Organization: African Virtual University >Keywords: 199801050036.RAA00965 Hi Etienne, > While I haven't tried Netcdf yet, I find its concept an appealing > one. My question is whether it can convert other documents, e.g word > document or excel spreadsheet into an html document. The interest of > this is that then one can travel almost freely and access his/her > document from any internet terminal. If it doesn't, do you now of any > other software product that does that (convert any type of file > format, into html and vice-versa). No, sorry, netCDF doesn't convert other document formats to HTML. It's just a data model and supporting software for accessing scientific array data from programs. It includes a couple of utilities for converting between netCDF data and text form, but the text form is CDL, not HTML. CDL can be viewed in a web browser by wrapping it in <PRE>...</PRE> HTML tags. Word already has a way to save Word documents as HTML, as part of its "Save As" command. See <http://channels.microsoft.com/officefreestuff/officehelpextras/shelf/excel/xlwebpub/xlwebpub.htm> for information about one way how to turn an Excel table into HTML. There may be other converters available ... Ultimately, I think this kind of information will end up as XML rather than HTML, since XML is capable of storing binary information as well as the metadata that describes it. See <http://www.w3.org/XML/> for more information. --Russ _____________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu