17 Oct
2008
17 Oct
'08
1:19 p.m.
On Oct 15, 2008, at 6:03 PM, Florin Ciubotaru 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.
Sounds good to me.
To put this into context this what we would have for converting office
documents to wiki pages:
* Ability to import any type of Office document (OO, MS Word, etc)
using the current office importer (alpha right now). This is the work
that Wang Ning has started and it works by installing OO on the
server. We use jodconverter to communicate with it and we use our HTML
parser to transform the HTML produced by OO and to convert it to wiki
syntax.
* Ability to use this MS Office plugin so that if you're editing in MS
Office you can easily edit/save a xwiki document. This would also work
using the HTML parser to convert the content to wiki syntax. The
advantage over the first approach is that MS HTML export should be
better than OO's one for MS office docs and if you're using MS OFfice
then the integration is tighter. The disadvantage is that it works
only with formats supported by MS Office.
Both are complementary and the users will have the choice.
Thanks
-Vincent