On 3/22/07, Weiler-Thiessen,David,SASKATOON,Engineering <David.WeilerThiessen@purina.nestle.com > wrote: Hi Brandon
What are you planning to do with Scriptom/Jacob? I haven't tried yet - but was wondering if it would be a good/better way of getting Wiki content into MS Word.
I work in a software development shop - and management is leery of keeping long lived important information on our Wiki. They would prefer to move stuff out into Word. We have looked at some translator tools - but nothing suits us. So far we have just done clumsy copy/paste. Would be better if we could get an automated solution that worked for us.
Hi,
First of all, why Word? It's a proprietary format changing from version to version. It's like saving all your important data on floppy disks for safe storage. You should at least use an open format, like OASIS Open Document.
You can do a clever thing which requires no tools.
- Export your wiki documents to XML. You can either make a groovy script for this, which can be run from a command line, or use the export feature in the new xwiki.
- You can the process the documents as any XML file. Either make a program that uses DOM or SAX to process it, or write an XSLT stylesheet to transform it into any other XML-based document format (Open Document, DocBook or the new MS Word), or even XSL-FO to generate PDF and RTF files.
- What's more, you can make an automated task for this, to be triggered once every week.
Anyway, I recommend sticking to the XWiki platform, as it will get better and better with each new release.