On Jun 4, 2008, at 8:33 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu
wrote:
Vincent Massol wrote:
> On Jun 4, 2008, at 7:30 PM, Ludovic Dubost wrote:
>
>
>> I agree,
>>
>> First you need to package your code as an XWiki plugin that can be
>> called.
>> This plugin should have as many conversion possibilities.
>>
>> doc or office -> xhtml
>> xls -> xhtml
>> doc -> openoffice
>> openoffice ->doc
>> doc -> pdf
>> html -> pdf
>> etc..
>>
> hmm not sure. We only need xhtml I think since it's then the role of
> the XWiki HTML Parser to generate an internal DOM. Once we have that
> DOM we benefit from all the renderers (PDF, XHTML, RTF, Latex, etc).
>
>
I second Vincent, for the moment the priority is to have wiki
documents.
But then I agree with Ludovic, that it would be better to convert
attachments to different formats using the OOo codebase. The pdf
export
done now affects only wiki documents, not attachments, and going
through
a long chain of conversions (.doc -> wiki -> xhtml -> xsl-fo -> pdf)
will only introduce possible problems at each conversion, while a
direct
conversion doc -> pdf using the (better) OOo code is simpler and
easier.
We can (and should) keep the current PDF export mechanism for wiki
documents, though.
I think we should make the PDF export a secondary priority and get the
rest working for now. Let's revisit it when all the rest is working
fine.
Thanks
-Vincent
>> Concerning xls I think we should look
into having an import that
>> does
>> not go through html
>> We might want to write xls to wiki table
>>
>>
+1 to this one, too. I think that direct data manipulation through OOo
is better than reverse-engineering html, and not just for
spreadsheets,
but other types of documents.
--
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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