Thanks for the idea :) We could do, 1. Upload the document into XWiki.OfficeImporter (The repository) 2. Have a GWT rpc call such as; String importDocument(String fileName, String targetPage); Here the fileName is the name of the attachment just added to XWiki.OfficeImporter and targetPage would be the name of the current wiki page being edited. As you said, the attached document itself can be deleted when the import is complete. (+ need to workaround name collisions with multiple users, but that's not a big issue IMO).

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 ;-)]

Asiri Rathnayake wrote: You don't necessarily have to have your own servlet for this, you could attach it to a wiki document, by posting to the "upload" action for the wiki document, with the appropriate field names. I'm doing this in the image plugin with the FileUploadForm. You could even have your own action to post to, similar to the "upload" only that it would invoke the importer plugin for the uploaded file and send back the results, although I'm not really sure this is a good idea, as actions are quite a core part of the wiki, and whose changing requires changes deep down (need to write your action and have it on the server, need to map it in the actions mapping file). Your servlet would require web.xml mapping too, so maybe it's quite the same. Or, in order to get the output back you can: 1. upload the file to the current document and, when the upload call returns, make a second call to the WywisygService to import the uploaded file and send back (x)html. 2. upload the file to an office importer special document, transform it and return it with the upload action result (I need to digg more on this to see how exactly would it be done). This solution would be hard to mix with the uploaded images in the file, as they won't be attached to the correct wiki document upon save, you'd need to move them. Of course, you could also use solution 1. with a special OfficeImporter document as a repository for all files uploaded which need to be imported. In both cases, uploaded attachment could be deleted after import. You couldn't just save the document in which you import the uploaded file? This would solve a couple of problems from the previous point, too. Otherwise, this problem is quite the same for any editing: the user does some edits, image uploads, inserts his / her image and then cancels. The images will stay attached to the page even if the content that uses them won't. One solution, not very clean and which I don't like, but would solve the problem, would be to give them special names which would help you to have a piece of code which could look for all unused such attachments and delete them. Or, with the (x)html content of the imported file, you could return to the importer plugin a list of images attached with that file which you'd delete upon cancel. Or you could just leave them there (could you?), as we do for all edit situations, as I mentioned. Happy coding, Anca _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs