Scripts and utilities
FictionBook Tools
FB Tools provide a few utilities to simplify handling FB2 documents on a desktop pc:- FB2 Validator
- FB2 files editor
- Infotips and columns provider for Windows Explorer
Download: FictionBook Tools v2.0 Setup.exe .
FB Tools require MSXML4, to function properly, also some programs are written in VB and may need mscomctl.ocx and msvbvm60.dll to run.
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Windows Explorer in WinXP with FB Tools
Direct HTML to XML conversion
html2xml.pl - a simple perl script, requires HTML::Tree package. Supports only normal paragraphs with minimal formatting (bold/italic), can detect section headings.Export from Microsoft Word to XML
ExportXML.dot. Features:- Detects section headings according to Word document structure
- Converts bold and italic text to strong and emphasis XML elements
- Understands "Epigraph", "Epigraph Author" and "Annotation" styles at start of sections
- Understands "Poem Title", "Stanza", "Cite", "Cite Author" styles in text
- Converts footnotes and endnotes to FB2.0 hyperlinks
Author: Mike Matsnev, [email protected]