Transcoding HTML docs to XWiki?
This is one of those long-time gotchas about wikis: that migrating from one to another is potentially painful. However, this isn't really about that. What I'd really like to do is get a lot of content out of the MS Word docs that we still end up having to attach, in order to facilitate collaborative development on them. Even if we have to reconvert them to suit other people's requirements, I think it would be well worth the trouble to work on them in XWiki syntax. Of course, Word can save as HTML, and HTML will work on an XWiki page, but without the ease of editing offered by wiki syntax, the benefits would be greatly reduced. Has anyone thought (or done) anything about condensing reasonably well-structured HTML into equivalent XWiki syntax? Brian M. Thomas - Senior Technical Architect AT&T Services, Inc. One SBC Center, Room 24D3 St. Louis, MO 63101 314 235 3141
Hi, I don't have script for converting to wiki syntax, but you can use Open Office to convert it in html. I think the html of OO is better than the one of Word. You can after import it on the wiki with regex to replace html tags. http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Dev/OpenOffice+Integration tell me if you try it, i'm very interested in. Jérémi On 6/27/06, THOMAS, BRIAN M (SBCSI) <bt0008@att.com> wrote:
This is one of those long-time gotchas about wikis: that migrating from one to another is potentially painful. However, this isn't really about that.
What I'd really like to do is get a lot of content out of the MS Word docs that we still end up having to attach, in order to facilitate collaborative development on them. Even if we have to reconvert them to suit other people's requirements, I think it would be well worth the trouble to work on them in XWiki syntax.
Of course, Word can save as HTML, and HTML will work on an XWiki page, but without the ease of editing offered by wiki syntax, the benefits would be greatly reduced.
Has anyone thought (or done) anything about condensing reasonably well-structured HTML into equivalent XWiki syntax?
-- jeremi
........................................ I think the html of OO is better than the one of Word...
If someone offers a prize for the understatement of the year, or even of the century-to-date, I'll be sure to nominate you, Jérémi. I quickly gave up any hope of using Word's HTML output after one look at it, which I have little doubt is exactly what they wanted. And, of course, thanks for the link. We don't yet have OO.o here, but this is yet another reason to consider requesting permission from the corporate watchdogs to get it. I do have OO.o 1.1 on MacOSX at home, but I'm told that 2.0 will be a long time coming to the Mac... brain[sic]
I haven't played with the wysiwyg editor in recent xwiki versions, but I know the editor it is based on, TinyMCE, allows one to cutnpaste from a word doc, and it sanitizes the html. Maybe that on top of the XWiki/TinyMCE integration will translate into xwiki syntax? Matt On Jun 27, 2006, at 1:48 PM, THOMAS, BRIAN M ((SBCSI)) wrote:
........................................ I think the html of OO is better than the one of Word...
If someone offers a prize for the understatement of the year, or even of the century-to-date, I'll be sure to nominate you, Jérémi. I quickly gave up any hope of using Word's HTML output after one look at it, which I have little doubt is exactly what they wanted.
And, of course, thanks for the link. We don't yet have OO.o here, but this is yet another reason to consider requesting permission from the corporate watchdogs to get it. I do have OO.o 1.1 on MacOSX at home, but I'm told that 2.0 will be a long time coming to the Mac...
On 6/28/06, Matthew Conway <conway@tripadvisor.com> wrote:
I haven't played with the wysiwyg editor in recent xwiki versions, but I know the editor it is based on, TinyMCE, allows one to cutnpaste from a word doc, and it sanitizes the html. Maybe that on top of the XWiki/TinyMCE integration will translate into xwiki syntax?
Yes, the translation from html to xwiki syntax is made by javascript. -- jeremi
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