[xwiki-devs] GSoC 2008 : Office Import

[Ludovic Dubost]

Hi Wang,

The Office import is very important. This is a requirement more and more 
from clients.
Now there is less information on that since it has some prerequisites:

- new rendering module
- new wysiwyg editor

Now I think we are on track to have this for the Summer of Code, so it 
would be great to have a good student on this project.
The project is a it complex since it has multiple parts requiring 
different technologies:

- one back end part able to convert any content given (from copy paste, 
from file, from webservice) to something that can be put in an existing 
page.
- one front end in the wysiwyg editor (for copy paste, uploading file 
and telling where to import it and in which form). This will be in GWT.
- one front end in xwiki ui to import to a existing or new page

We need to make this modular to be able to have lots of different import 
sources.
The ones I think in order of importance are

- MS Word from copy paste
- Excel from copy paste (to wiki table)
- HTML from copy paste
- Any MSOffice or OpenOffice file
- Google Docs
- XML source from HTTP WebService

The highest priority is a great import plugin in Java. Bindings to the 
UI can be done later but would be great of course.

Ludovic

Wang Ning wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I'm a graduate student from Institute of Software, China Academy of
>  Sciences. My major is web service and service compute. I'm family with
>  SOAP/HTTP web service and we have developed a soap engine. Now we are
>  improve our engine to support RESTful web service. My major
>  programming language is java. However, I have experience with linux
>  shell programming, hibernate. I used spring framework to build the web
>  interface for our soap engine.
>
>  One year ago, I used xwiki for the knowledge sharing system and
>  collaboration platform in our lab. I did some work for translate Xwiki
>  to Chinese interface. Furthermore, I discussion some configuration for
>  using Chinese characters in xwiki.
>
>  Now I wanted to import some microsoft word document to xwiki document, but the
>  wysiwyg editor didn't work so well. Thus, I want to improve it.
>
>  However I can't find so many detail information about this project as
>  other projects, such like Presentation Application project. Does this
>  mean office import is not so important?
>  Please reply to me to discuss the relevant facts about this project.
>  Thank you very much.
>
>  Sincerely,
>  Wang Ning
>
>
>
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