[xwiki-dev] HTML Import Plugin and possible XML/HTML checker?

[Vincent Massol]

Hi Ed/Mac,

You wet our appetite with your plugin... Any progress?

Thanks
-Vincent

On Jan 6, 2007, at 1:54 AM, Ludovic Dubost wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> This looks nice.. We are already using JTidy for the HTML -> XHTML
> conversion before we export to PDF.
> A good way to do this is indeed as an XWiki plugin.
> I would suggest 2 plugins:
>
> 1/ Importer
>  It would be great if the importer have a generic part and a format
> specific part. We could use the base code as the code to import from
> other wiki formats.
>  There is one case which is complex in importing is when you want to
> handle links. You might need to read multiple files to convert links
> from one format to another. For example if you have a set of HTML  
> files
> with relative links you might want to convert them to wiki links.
>  An importer framework which allows to handle this would be great.
>
> 2/ Validator/Cleaner
>  It would be great to be able to use each part separately and have  
> some
> options when calling it.
>  Besides cross side scripting being able to allow/refuse tag lists  
> would
> be great and also allow/refuse velocity and groovy
>
> I guess Vincent would like to see the plugin outside of the core, but
> I'll leave this to him.
>
> Ludovic
>
> Mac a écrit :
> > Hey there,
> >    I was thinking about building a XWiki plugin that will import
> > (dynamically) another website, either whole or partial (A little XML
> > parsing of it), besides reading the one page Plugin Doc Is there any
> > thing else that I could use to help me speed up this development?  
> Like
> > XML parser/HtmlTidy or something that XWiki may already uses?
> >
> >
> > Also,
> >     While I am on this topic of html, since the Wiki will take
> > Html/xml in the normal editing of the page.  I would be willing to
> > write a Validator that would strip out dangerious html (Cross site
> > scripting,...) I have already done this in a filter for a "Sudo  
> wiki"
> > I was building from scratch, but would be willing to re-write it  
> in a
> > way that would be helpful to the project, if someone could point  
> me in
> > the right direction where this type of Class would fit in to the  
> project.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Cant wait to see beta 2
> >
> >
> >
>
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