I’ve already seen lots of posts on the site for RTF to HTML and some other posts talking about some HTML to RTF converters, but I’m really trying to get a full breakdown of what is considered the most widely used commercial product, open source product or if people recommend going home grown. Apologies if you consider this a duplicate question, but I’m trying to create a product matrix to see what is the most viable for our application. I also think this would be helpful for others.
The converter would be used in an ASP.NET 2.0 application (we’re upgrading to 3.5 shortly but still sticking with WebForms) using SQLServer 2005 (soon 2008) as the DB.
From reading a few posts, SautinSoft appears to be popular as a commercial component. Are there other commercial components that you’d recommend for converting HTML to RTF? Price does matter, but even if it’s a little on the expensive side, please list it.
For open source, I read that OpenOffice.org can be run as a service so that it can convert files. However, this appears to be only Java based. I imagine, I’d need some kind of interop to use this? What .NET open source components, if any, are out there for converting HTML to RTF?
For home grown, is an XSLT the way to go with XHTML? If so, what component do you recommend for generating XHTML? Otherwise, what other home grown avenuses do you recommend.
Also, please note that I currently don’t care so much about RTF to HTML. If a commercial component offers this and the price is still the same, fine, otherwise please don’t mention it.
I would recommend doing it yourself as the task is not really that complex. Firstly, the easiest way convert one Xml format into another Xml format is with an Xslt. Converting Xml documents in C# is super easy.
Here is a good msdn blog post to get you started. Mike even mentions that it was easier to do this by hand that to deal with a third party.
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Actually, I already answered this question here. Guess that makes this a duplicate.