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Old 02-26-2016, 09:25 AM   #346
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Originally Posted by BetterRed View Post
@Toxaris - FYI, I bit the bullet! Converted my S&R rule tables to spreadsheets, which IMO is the best approach for reading and maintaining tabular data.

I'll have a script to save those as csv files, convert to xml, and then concatenate the xml 'header', the xml tables and the xml 'footer' to create a new MyReplaceRules.xml. That's the file I input into EPUB-Tools->Settings->S&R->Create temp S/R XML, as per my last screen shot.

This 'approach' has been rattling around in my head for some time.

BR
Have you looked at the internal editor? You can maintain the data there and copy entries between datasets for example. It might make your process simpler. Also, as Word sometimes has issues with special characters in RegEx, you can easily get the codes for special characters that Word understands.
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