On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
On Nov 3, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:
Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
Hi Devs,
When converting office documents into html (before they are transformed into xwiki syntax) lots of style information gets added into the html. For an example :
<p class="western">Text in a <sup><span
style="color:;font-family=;font-size=2pt;">superscript</span></ sup>format</p>
And finally when this is transformed into xwiki syntax, the result will
look
something like :
(% class="western" %) Text in a ^^(% style="color:;font-family=;font-size=2pt;" %)superscript^^(%%) format
The problem with this is, the resulting xwiki document will have lot's of (%%) elements which makes it difficult to make modifications in wiki mode. And another argument is that content is more important than style (vincent).
So, there are three options :
1. Rip off style information.
What is expressible with wiki markup should be kept (headings, bold, superscript...). No font information, please.
I'd be in favour of removing parameters that do not directly translate into XWiki 2.0 syntax items in all cases (otherwise imported documents will not have a consistent look across the wiki).
The (%...%) notation *IS* wiki syntax. I think you're talking about removing style elements.
I know that (%...%) is wiki syntax. What I meant is that I agreed with Asiri on the fact that an user will never bother editing a document loaded with (%...%) all over the place. Thus removing style elements by default (and therefore avoiding having to use the (%...%) syntax as a byproduct) seems to be the best option to me.
This would mean getting rid of font size, font color and font family in all cases, without even allowing the user to do so.
Without allowing the user to do what?
Without letting the user import styles by default (ie, the user should explicitely choose importing styles). Guillaume
Thanks -Vincent
WDYT?
Guillaume
2. Keep style information as it is.
3. Give the user an option to select between 1 and 2.
I'm going with 3. :)
+1 for 3.
WDYT ?
Thanks.
- Asiri
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