On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:43, Ziggy <ziggy25(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Tables - Copying and pasting from excel into Xwiki
I tried to copy a table in excel and paste it(from the clipboard) into a
document in Xwiki which was open in WYSIWYG mode. The table looked fine but
when i looked at the document in WIKI mode it came up in the following
format
(% border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
style="border-collapse:
collapse; width: 144pt;" width="192" %)
(% height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;" %)|(% height="17"
style="height:
12.75pt; width: 48pt;" width="64" %)Value1|(% style="width:
48pt;"
width="64" %)Value2|(% style="width: 48pt;" width="64"
%)Value3
(% height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;" %)|(% height="17"
style="height:
12.75pt;" %)NextValue2|NextValue3|NextValue4
I thought the table would come up looking like this (In Wiki mode)
|value1|Value2|Value3
|nextValue1|nextValue2|nextValue3
That's because when you copy paste from excel, excel give us a html
table with many styling parameters in it (all you find between, (% and
%)).
If you want a "clean" copy/past you can use "Import" ->
"Office
Content (Copy/Paste)" and make sure "Filter Styles" is enabled.
What exactly is that format that appeared when i copied and pasted the table
from excel? it looks like cascading style sheet but not quite exactly
cascading style sheet.
How can i understand it?
Basically (%param=value%) syntax is a way to attach custom parameter
to a syntax element. Here is a simple example:
|cell1|cell1
produce more or less
<table><tr><td></td><td></td></tr</table>
but you can also have some custom table parameters
(% class="myclass" %)
|cell1|cell1
produce
<table
class="myclass"><tr>cell1<td></td><td>cell2</td></tr</table>
----------------------------
(% class="myclass" %)|cell1|cell1
produce
<table><tr
class="myclass"><td>cell1</td><td>cell2</td></tr</table>
----------------------------
|(% class="myclass" %)cell1|cell1
produce
<table><tr><tdclass="myclass">cell1</td><td>cell2</td></tr</table>
And also sometimes i see reference to definitions of styles within the table
(i.e. class="xl25", class="x122") etc. Where would this classes be
defined
and if i upgrade the xwiki installation would these style
(% height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;" %)|(% class="xl22"
height="17"
str="- 2.8.17 [Ref #15] Check for message displayed. " style="height:
12.75pt;" %)- 2.8.17 [Ref #15] Check for message displayed. |(%
class="xl22"
style="border-left: medium none;" %)
(% height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;" %)|(% class="xl22"
height="17"
str="- 2.8.17 [Ref #16] Check for message reversion. " style="height:
12.75pt;" %)- 2.8.17 [Ref #16] Check for message reversion. |(%
class="xl22"
style="border-left: medium none;" %)
Thanks
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