Re: [xwiki-devs] [GSOC]how to convert html to xwiki syntax

It's probably not very difficult to add another HTML to XWiki converter[1] to the my Java Wikipedia API [2]. You can try the converter online at [3].

[1] http://plog4u.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/plog4u/info.bliki.wiki/src/info/bl… [2] http://matheclipse.org/en/Java_Wikipedia_API [3] http://jtidy.de/

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote: > > On Jun 4, 2008, at 7:21 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: > >> Hi Wang, >> >> On Jun 4, 2008, at 7:04 PM, Wang Ning wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have built a standalone plugin to convert MS Doc, MS excel to >>> html. >> >> cool :) >> >>> This >>> plugin can run as a jar through command line or as a web >>> application through >>> url. >> >> What do you mean by plugin? Do you mean xwiki plugin (probably not)? >> >> You need to find out and propose how to integrate the import feature >> into xwiki both in term of UI and in term of code. The best right >> now is probably to add a button in the tiny MCE editor. >> >>> Next, how to convert the html to xwiki syntax document? use xslt? >>> Do the new >>> rendering code have any influence? >> >> I think we can do it in 2 steps: >> Step 1: get clean HTML. Since XWiki is able to display HTML it >> should work fine. This also means that the imported doc will be >> edited through the WYSIWYG editor (tinyMCE) >> Step 2: convert the HTML into wiki syntax wherever possible. This is >> indeed a job for the new rendering module and you'll need to write >> an HTML Parser (i.e. implementing the org.xwiki.rendernig.Parser >> interface). You should have a look at the 2 existing parsers: >> WikiModelXWikiParser and DoxiaConfluenceParser. In this case though >> you should use an XML parser to parse the XHTML instead of wiki >> model or doxia. Thus it's important that in step 1 you get clean >> XHTML (probably run JTidy on it). > > Just found that some wikimodel guy is working on converting xhtml to > wiki syntax: > http://code.google.com/p/wikimodel/issues/detail?id=5 > > Might be worth talking to him to see how he's progressed since we > might want to use his work and possibly even help him. > > Thanks > -Vincent > >>> Now I can't handle the clipboard format. I think clipboard is at >>> the second >>> priority. >>> >>> My another question: how to add my code to xwiki code sandbox? Do >>> I need to >>> build ,test and distrubut my plugin by maven way? If yes, please >>> tell how. >> >> You need to follow all the coding conventions and best practices >> described at dev.xwiki.org >> You need to provide a maven build yes. Plenty of examples in the >> xwiki source tree. >> The best is maybe that you package your code as a xwiki plugin for >> now. check xwiki-platform-plugins for examples of plugin and how >> they are packaged/built. >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent