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

[Ludovic Dubost]

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..

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

Ludovic

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).
>
>   
>> 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
>
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