On 03/04/2010 09:41 AM, Nino Novak wrote: >> There is no "easy" one-click way to download any multi-page part of >> any website or Wiki - at least not from within the website/Wiki >> without some preparation. >> >> The OooWiki uses Books for this, but someone has to create the Book - >> they cannot (at this point) be auto-generated. > > but it's definitely a nice-to-have feature for the documentation wiki to > have a mechanism which - say - automatically updates existing > "official" wikibooks each time one of the underlying documents is > changed, e.g. on a daily basis. Maybe it's doable with a > script/bot/cronjob already?
How would this work? I've pondered this one quite a lot, wishing it could be totally automated, and I haven't been able to come up with anything reliable or practical that could manage the whole process. The closest I've come to an idea for automating that would have a chance to work is to parse the maintained TOC file, and convert it into a Book file. The TOC file is a known and maintained part of any Wiki Book. The syntax of both the TOC file and the Book file are known... and in theory the TOC could be converted into a book via an external transform. Simple Pseudocode: - Use the MW API to extract the XML for a given TOC - Parse the TOC XML and convert/transform it to Book XML - Use API to upload the Book XML The transform is the challenge... it can be done using... Ant/XSLT/Saxon for example. C. -- Clayton Cornell ccorn...@openoffice.org OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@documentation.openoffice.org
