One of the big challenges we face with putting the OpenOffice.org
documentation on the Wiki is getting it back out if we need to publish
some kind of offline document.
There are a few options for offline publishing. For example, you can
the MediaWiki API to extract the XML, and then process that XML through
Docbook and ApacheFO.
Another possibility is to use a MediaWiki Extension. Someone started
work on an extension to do just this, but at some point the project was
abandoned and no one has picked it up again.
I have installed the last available code from this extension project in
the OpenOffice.org Wiki. You can try it out by going to:
- Special Pages
- Wiki2XML
(direct page link is:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Special:Wiki2XML )
The Extension project page is:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wiki2xml
The nice part about this extension is that you can use it to generate an
ODT document (not just a PDF like the ApacheFO method).
There are issues though. In its current configuration, it generates an
ODT document that OpenOffice.org cannot open(due to a header error that
inserts extra bytes at the beginning of the ODT zip file). There is a
quick workaround though... manually upzip the ODT document, and then zip
it back up again and the document will work in OpenOffice.org.
I would like to ask for a little help with this. We need to resolve why
the error messages are being appended to the zip file, and then we need
to clean up the extension and get it processing the MediaWiki articles
into usable ODT documents. Is there anyone here who can lend a hand and
some expertise to this?
Does anyone know of another (better?) way to achieve similar results?
C.
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Clayton Cornell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany
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