On 3/22/07, Weiler-Thiessen,David,SASKATOON,Engineering <
David.WeilerThiessen(a)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.
Sergiu
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