Cool !  I'm glad I could be of help !  Mirko will be happy to know you are
working with his code.  Putting him on copy.

Luis

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Ludovic Dubost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> Thanks Luis,
>
> This is indeed exactly what we need.. a web service and a java API at
> the same time
> Wang you should use this.. expose it as an XWiki plugin with a
> configuration option to run embed or connect to an existing web service.
>
> My idea is that we ship XWiki configured by default to talk to a server
> that we would host on our platform.
>
> Ludovic
>
> Luis Arias wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Sorry to pop in, but I imagine you are aware of Mirko's JODConverter and
> > JODReports:
> >
> > http://www.artofsolving.com/
> >
> > If not I thought it might be useful in the context of your discussion.
>  His
> > code is used by Nuxeo, Alfresco, and others and is very simple to use.
> > JODCOnverter plugs into OO running in server mode.
> >
> > Good luck,
> > Luis
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Vincent Massol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On Jun 4, 2008, at 8:33 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Vincent Massol wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Jun 4, 2008, at 7:30 PM, Ludovic Dubost wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> I agree,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> First you need to package your code as an XWiki plugin that can be
> >>>>> called.
> >>>>> This plugin should have as many conversion possibilities.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> doc or office -> xhtml
> >>>>> xls -> xhtml
> >>>>> doc -> openoffice
> >>>>> openoffice ->doc
> >>>>> doc -> pdf
> >>>>> html -> pdf
> >>>>> etc..
> >>>>>
> >>>> hmm not sure. We only need xhtml I think since it's then the role of
> >>>> the XWiki HTML Parser to generate an internal DOM. Once we have that
> >>>> DOM we benefit from all the renderers (PDF, XHTML, RTF, Latex, etc).
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> I second Vincent, for the moment the priority is to have wiki
> >>> documents.
> >>> But then I agree with Ludovic, that it would be better to convert
> >>> attachments to different formats using the OOo codebase. The pdf
> >>> export
> >>> done now affects only wiki documents, not attachments, and going
> >>> through
> >>> a long chain of conversions (.doc -> wiki -> xhtml -> xsl-fo -> pdf)
> >>> will only introduce possible problems at each conversion, while a
> >>> direct
> >>> conversion doc -> pdf using the (better) OOo code is simpler and
> >>> easier.
> >>> We can (and should) keep the current PDF export mechanism for wiki
> >>> documents, though.
> >>>
> >> I think we should make the PDF export a secondary priority and get the
> >> rest working for now. Let's revisit it when all the rest is working
> >> fine.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> -Vincent
> >>
> >>
> >>>>> Concerning xls I think we should look into having an import that
> >>>>> does
> >>>>> not go through html
> >>>>> We might want to write xls to wiki table
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>> +1 to this one, too. I think that direct data manipulation through OOo
> >>> is better than reverse-engineering html, and not just for
> >>> spreadsheets,
> >>> but other types of documents.
> >>> --
> >>> Sergiu Dumitriu
> >>> http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
> >>>
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> >
> >
> >
>
>
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