[xwiki-users] Migrating articles into xwiki
Hi. We have a repository of articles (our Old CMS) we would like to import into xwiki automatically. These Articles are in a propietary XML format, one XML file per article. What would be the best approach? We have ability to restructure/transform xml into another xml by means of xslt. Which approaches could we research? Gerritjan
Hi, XWiki Pages are stored as XML files. You can look at the XML representation of a standard XWiki pages (export as XAR, rename to ZIP, unzip, look inside the folder). Then try to find which XWL fields from your original XML format could be converted into XWiki document fields (especially web, name, title, creation date and content). Once you've decided which mapping to use, write and launch your XSLT script. Then you'll have a bunch of XWiki pages as XML. Look at the output of a XWiki XAR export to see what the description file looks like and write one with the name of your pages inside. Put everything into a folder, zip it, rename it to .xar, try importing it. If the import fails, try splitting it into a number of smaller XARs. Hope this helps, Guillaume On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Gerritjan Koekkoek < [email protected]> wrote:
Hi.
We have a repository of articles (our Old CMS) we would like to import into xwiki automatically. These Articles are in a propietary XML format, one XML file per article.
What would be the best approach? We have ability to restructure/transform xml into another xml by means of xslt.
Which approaches could we research?
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Hi, I understand the concept, but what do I do with relations; Creator, Translation, translator. I also have some markup-tags like Title, Quote, Bulleted list, Information, Contact-information How would you develop a xml-schema for this; could I look at the database structure and assume required, optional constraints Are there any enumerations used in xwiki (list of possible values) for a field What is the best way to find-out about the standard POSSIBLE attributes of a xwiki document Gerritjan On 14 feb 2009, at 18:55, Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
Hi,
XWiki Pages are stored as XML files. You can look at the XML representation of a standard XWiki pages (export as XAR, rename to ZIP, unzip, look inside the folder). Then try to find which XWL fields from your original XML format could be converted into XWiki document fields (especially web, name, title, creation date and content).
Once you've decided which mapping to use, write and launch your XSLT script. Then you'll have a bunch of XWiki pages as XML. Look at the output of a XWiki XAR export to see what the description file looks like and write one with the name of your pages inside.
Put everything into a folder, zip it, rename it to .xar, try importing it. If the import fails, try splitting it into a number of smaller XARs.
Hope this helps,
Guillaume
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Gerritjan Koekkoek < [email protected]> wrote:
Hi.
We have a repository of articles (our Old CMS) we would like to import into xwiki automatically. These Articles are in a propietary XML format, one XML file per article.
What would be the best approach? We have ability to restructure/transform xml into another xml by means of xslt.
Which approaches could we research?
Gerritjan _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
-- Guillaume Lerouge Product Manager - XWiki Skype ID : wikibc http://guillaumelerouge.com/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Gerritjan Koekkoek wrote:
Hi,
I understand the concept, but what do I do with relations; Creator, Translation, translator.
I advise you to look at a generated XML file, the structure will answer your questions.
I also have some markup-tags like Title, Quote, Bulleted list, Information, Contact-information
For this you can either use the syntax conversion feature of XWiki (as Vincent said), or manually process the wiki content to convert to the XWiki syntax.
How would you develop a xml-schema for this; could I look at the database structure and assume required, optional constraints Are there any enumerations used in xwiki (list of possible values) for a field
What is the best way to find-out about the standard POSSIBLE attributes of a xwiki document
Look at the XWikiDocument java class (http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/platform/core/trunk/xwiki-core/src/main/j...), or at the hibernate mapping file (http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/platform/core/trunk/xwiki-core/src/main/r...). Or, look at the XML export of a document (http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome?xpage=xml), as the format is straight-forward.
Gerritjan On 14 feb 2009, at 18:55, Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
Hi,
XWiki Pages are stored as XML files. You can look at the XML representation of a standard XWiki pages (export as XAR, rename to ZIP, unzip, look inside the folder). Then try to find which XWL fields from your original XML format could be converted into XWiki document fields (especially web, name, title, creation date and content).
Once you've decided which mapping to use, write and launch your XSLT script. Then you'll have a bunch of XWiki pages as XML. Look at the output of a XWiki XAR export to see what the description file looks like and write one with the name of your pages inside.
Put everything into a folder, zip it, rename it to .xar, try importing it. If the import fails, try splitting it into a number of smaller XARs.
Hope this helps,
Guillaume
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Gerritjan Koekkoek < [email protected]> wrote:
Hi.
We have a repository of articles (our Old CMS) we would like to import into xwiki automatically. These Articles are in a propietary XML format, one XML file per article.
What would be the best approach? We have ability to restructure/transform xml into another xml by means of xslt.
Which approaches could we research?
Gerritjan
-- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
Hi, Would this work with objects? Say we have an addressbook (e.g. in XML format). If I create a class ContactPerson in XWiki, can I populate XWiki with instances of contact objects (1 per page)? Thanks, Marc
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Guillaume Lerouge Sent: February 14, 2009 12:56 PM To: XWiki Users Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Migrating articles into xwiki
Hi,
XWiki Pages are stored as XML files. You can look at the XML representation of a standard XWiki pages (export as XAR, rename to ZIP, unzip, look inside the folder). Then try to find which XWL fields from your original XML format could be converted into XWiki document fields (especially web, name, title, creation date and content).
Once you've decided which mapping to use, write and launch your XSLT script. Then you'll have a bunch of XWiki pages as XML. Look at the output of a XWiki XAR export to see what the description file looks like and write one with the name of your pages inside.
Put everything into a folder, zip it, rename it to .xar, try importing it. If the import fails, try splitting it into a number of smaller XARs.
Hope this helps,
Guillaume
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Gerritjan Koekkoek < [email protected]> wrote:
Hi.
We have a repository of articles (our Old CMS) we would like to import into xwiki automatically. These Articles are in a propietary XML format, one XML file per article.
What would be the best approach? We have ability to restructure/transform xml into another xml by means of xslt.
Which approaches could we research?
Gerritjan _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
-- Guillaume Lerouge Product Manager - XWiki Skype ID : wikibc http://guillaumelerouge.com/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Hi Marc, On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Lijour, Marc (EDU) <[email protected]
wrote:
Hi,
Would this work with objects?
Definitely. See below. Say we have an addressbook (e.g. in XML format). If I create a class
ContactPerson in XWiki, can I populate XWiki with instances of contact objects (1 per page)?
A XWiki page with objects has an XML representation (see http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/XWikiEnterprise19RC1Released?xpage=... a live example). As you can see, you've got an "object" tag with subtags in it (I removed some parts of the XML file in the example below for clarity) : <object> <class> <name>XWiki.ArticleClass</name> − <name>Blog.XWikiEnterprise19RC1Released</name> <number>0</number> <className>XWiki.ArticleClass</className> <guid>89206df0-9f99-4eab-97dc-3628c27e9105</guid> − <content> The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Enterprise 1.9 Release Candidate 1. First release candidate of the XWiki Enterprise 1.9 version. ... </content> where <class> tells you to which class the object belongs (a blog post in this case) and <content> defines one of the object's properties' content (in this case the text of the blog article). The easierst way to achieve your aim would be to create an AddressBookContact class from the wiki interface, then create an instance of this class (an object with dummy values) and view it as XML (append ?xpage=xml at the end of your page) -> you'll have the default fields of your class. Then you can define how you want to map xml files from your original address book to the XWiki one (if you defined your class according to the original XML file it will be easy) and use XSLT to go from one file to the next. Please note that it's better to create one new document for each object (one object per document) for scalability purposes, thus you would also have to map document metadata (such as document title, author etc...). Once you've generated all your pages, you can write a package.xml file to list them, zip everything together, rename it as .xar and upload it to your wiki (a XAR file is only a renamed ZIP file). Obviously you could also use the XML / RPC API to do all this... A nice additional thing you might want to do is to use XWiki's new livetable to display contacts from the address book afterwards ;-) If you come up with such an application we'll be happy to see it on code.xwiki.org Hope this helps, Guillaume
Thanks,
Marc
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Guillaume Lerouge Sent: February 14, 2009 12:56 PM To: XWiki Users Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Migrating articles into xwiki
Hi,
XWiki Pages are stored as XML files. You can look at the XML representation of a standard XWiki pages (export as XAR, rename to ZIP, unzip, look inside the folder). Then try to find which XWL fields from your original XML format could be converted into XWiki document fields (especially web, name, title, creation date and content).
Once you've decided which mapping to use, write and launch your XSLT script. Then you'll have a bunch of XWiki pages as XML. Look at the output of a XWiki XAR export to see what the description file looks like and write one with the name of your pages inside.
Put everything into a folder, zip it, rename it to .xar, try importing it. If the import fails, try splitting it into a number of smaller XARs.
Hope this helps,
Guillaume
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Gerritjan Koekkoek < [email protected]> wrote:
Hi.
We have a repository of articles (our Old CMS) we would like to import into xwiki automatically. These Articles are in a propietary XML format, one XML file per article.
What would be the best approach? We have ability to restructure/transform xml into another xml by means of xslt.
Which approaches could we research?
Gerritjan _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
-- Guillaume Lerouge Product Manager - XWiki Skype ID : wikibc http://guillaumelerouge.com/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
_______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
-- Guillaume Lerouge Product Manager - XWiki Skype ID : wikibc http://guillaumelerouge.com/
Merci Guillaume!
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Guillaume Lerouge Sent: May 26, 2009 6:39 PM To: XWiki Users Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Migrating articles into xwiki
Hi Marc,
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Lijour, Marc (EDU) <[email protected]
wrote:
Hi,
Would this work with objects?
Definitely. See below.
Say we have an addressbook (e.g. in XML format). If I create a class
ContactPerson in XWiki, can I populate XWiki with instances of contact objects (1 per page)?
A XWiki page with objects has an XML representation (see http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/XWikiEnterprise19RC1R eleased?xpage=xmlfor a live example). As you can see, you've got an "object" tag with subtags in it (I removed some parts of the XML file in the example below for clarity) :
<object> <class> <name>XWiki.ArticleClass</name> − <name>Blog.XWikiEnterprise19RC1Released</name> <number>0</number> <className>XWiki.ArticleClass</className> <guid>89206df0-9f99-4eab-97dc-3628c27e9105</guid> − <content> The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Enterprise 1.9 Release Candidate 1. First release candidate of the XWiki Enterprise 1.9 version. ... </content>
where <class> tells you to which class the object belongs (a blog post in this case) and <content> defines one of the object's properties' content (in this case the text of the blog article).
The easierst way to achieve your aim would be to create an AddressBookContact class from the wiki interface, then create an instance of this class (an object with dummy values) and view it as XML (append ?xpage=xml at the end of your page) -> you'll have the default fields of your class. Then you can define how you want to map xml files from your original address book to the XWiki one (if you defined your class according to the original XML file it will be easy) and use XSLT to go from one file to the next.
Please note that it's better to create one new document for each object (one object per document) for scalability purposes, thus you would also have to map document metadata (such as document title, author etc...). Once you've generated all your pages, you can write a package.xml file to list them, zip everything together, rename it as .xar and upload it to your wiki (a XAR file is only a renamed ZIP file). Obviously you could also use the XML / RPC API to do all this...
A nice additional thing you might want to do is to use XWiki's new livetable to display contacts from the address book afterwards ;-)
If you come up with such an application we'll be happy to see it on code.xwiki.org
Hope this helps, Guillaume
Thanks,
Marc
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Guillaume Lerouge Sent: February 14, 2009 12:56 PM To: XWiki Users Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Migrating articles into xwiki
Hi,
XWiki Pages are stored as XML files. You can look at the XML representation of a standard XWiki pages (export as XAR, rename to ZIP, unzip, look inside the folder). Then try to find which XWL fields from your original XML format could be converted into XWiki document fields (especially web, name, title, creation date and content).
Once you've decided which mapping to use, write and launch your XSLT script. Then you'll have a bunch of XWiki pages as XML. Look at the output of a XWiki XAR export to see what the description file looks like and write one with the name of your pages inside.
Put everything into a folder, zip it, rename it to .xar, try importing it. If the import fails, try splitting it into a number of smaller XARs.
Hope this helps,
Guillaume
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Gerritjan Koekkoek < [email protected]> wrote:
Hi.
We have a repository of articles (our Old CMS) we would like to import into xwiki automatically. These Articles are in a propietary XML format, one XML file per article.
What would be the best approach? We have ability to restructure/transform xml into another xml by means of xslt.
Which approaches could we research?
Gerritjan _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
-- Guillaume Lerouge Product Manager - XWiki Skype ID : wikibc http://guillaumelerouge.com/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
_______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
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