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

[Luis Arias]

Hi everyone,

Sorry to pop in, but I imagine you are aware of Mirko's JODConverter and
JODReports:

http://www.artofsolving.com/

If not I thought it might be useful in the context of your discussion.  His
code is used by Nuxeo, Alfresco, and others and is very simple to use.
JODCOnverter plugs into OO running in server mode.

Good luck,
Luis

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent at massol.net> wrote:

>
> 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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