Hi Niels, Thanks for the info. I am currently converting Word's html output to UTF-8, using .NET, before sending the data to the server. The first version of the add-in will store html. But, our goal is to store all the documents in wiki syntax, which is then handled by the renderer. This renderer's output is in a standard encoding so that the users wont have the problems caused by Windows-1232. Thanks for telling me about this issue, I will definitely keep an eye on it. Florin Ciubotaru Niels Mayer wrote:
Dragă Florin,
A few preexisting systems to consider/look at: http://www.pdfonline.com/ http://casesblog.blogspot.com/2005/08/blogger-for-word-publish-to-web-from.h... http://www.openxmlcommunity.org/daisy/
Unfortunately, when using Word for web-publishing directly, it seems to bloat the structured document terribly ( http://www.uwec.edu/help/Webpub/wordweb.htm ); also there's issues with conversion to UTF-8 ( http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/cis/webpublishing/81434.htm ) or foisting nonstandard charsets like Windows-1232 on web-viewers.
Cutting/pasting between word and Xwiki, Roller or other rich-text capable web-editors seems to work nicely. It's too bad one can't automate the "cut/paste" of the data that flows through the windows GUI between Word and Web-Browser, but instead, directly saves an Xwiki doc... Maybe it's just a matter of having a service on the Xwiki-end that saves an RTF document as an Xwiki doc, combined with a simple plugin on the Word-end to invoke the data-translation which normally occurs during cut/paste.
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Florin Ciubotaru <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi devs,
I started writing an Add-in for Microsoft Word that could be a part of our Office integration strategy. In the next period I'm going to spend 50% of my time on developing this, here at XWiki Romania. The technology I use is .NET + VSTO. Yes, I know that .NET it's not in XWiki's area, but this technology is very powerfull and it can bring an advantage for our platform. Here is the design page: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/MicrosoftOfficeAddin Please read it and give me some feedback.
-- Niels http://nielsmayer.com