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

Hi Wang, My opinion is that you should stick with the html export for now. Before going deeper into the OO api, you should study a little bit the XWiki architecture. If you want to test your html export simply copy the html into the wiki editor of a newly created page. Be aware that both OO and MS Office "save as html" api create a messy code. To solve that problem you could use the "tidy api" or use tidy command line to optimize a little bit the html code. Why do I recommend html instead of pdf or another format? First, because is easyer to integrate with XWiki. Second, If you look inside the html exported by MS Word, for example, you would see some tags hidden in html comments. These could be very important for our scope: Bigging collaboration to the next level(not only text, but: charts, tabular calculus, diagrams, even engineering<MS Visio>) So, those extra tags describe the fonts and other embeded elemets in the document. This elements are converted by default in gif images stored in the document's associated folder.It is best to have them as attached files in xwiki. When importing, you should parse the html and replace the "src" attribute with the url of the attachments. On the long shot, if you go further and create a "retrieve page feature", that will be spectacular, because we can enable that collaboration I was talking about. Also for the long term, we should keep an eye on upcoming Open XML renderers(embeded elements remain in the XML and that should be an advantage). It will be nice to have an OO plug-in for exporting, and retrieving the pages. I can suply the MS Office add-ins. I devopped some colaborative solutions in the past, using .NET and MS Office, and things can become pretty enteresting. So I think the "import document to XWiki" should be completed by a "export to xwiki" feature present in the rich client appications. There is a market for this hibid solutions.Take a look at MS Sharepoint, Exchange Server, Live writer, NewsGathor+Feed Daemon etc. I can provide some use cases for XWiki(especialy Workspaces). WDYT? I also atthached a print screen of a automated "save as html" add-in for MS Office.