27 Jan
2009
27 Jan
'09
10:30 a.m.
Hi Guillaume,
Another thing I've been wondering about: should we keep a copy of the
original office document attached to the wiki page it
has been converted
to?
It could be useful in some cases, when using a wiki page as a displayer for
a document that can be edited through webdav in its original format and
displayed on a wiki page for quick view... But maybe that makes more sense
for presentations than for Word documents. [I know this is akin to thread
hijacking - please move this part in another thread if planning a lengthy
answer ;-)]
Ok, only now I realized what you meant.... yes this would be great! For an
example on a wiki page someone would put:
$officeimporter.importDocument($doc.fullName, "test.doc", true)
and the return string would be xwiki 2.0 code for test.doc. (the final
boolean flag is used to differentiate between html and xwiki2.0)
This coupled with webdav would make page editing really easy. There are
several issues we need to be concerned about:
1. Requires a live oo server running all the time. (ok)
2. Officeimporter will be invoked each time the page is loaded (not good)
3. Requires webdav ui integration. (ok)
My concern is point 2, which is too much of an overhead.
WDYT?
Thanks.
- Asiri