On Jun 6, 2008, at 10:22 AM, Paul Libbrecht wrote:

> dare I candidly ask how math is processed?

Is that related to Office/OO import/Export?
Do you mean if you put math inside Word documents?

If you're talking about math support in general then that's not for  
this thread... :) I also remember we discussed that several times  
already too. Maybe you could start a new thread and explain what's  
your need?

Thanks
-Vincent

> Le 06-juin-08 à 00:34, Mirko Nasato a écrit :
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'd certainly be happy to add XWiki to the list of other open source
>> projects that use JODConverter and provide suggestions if needed.
>>
>> I see you mention xhtml... well the OOo xhtml filter is quite limited
>> currently.  For one it doesn't export embedded images[1].  But it's  
>> going to
>> see big improvements with OOo 3.0.
>>
>> You may also be interested to know that there's a new major version  
>> of
>> JODConverter[2] in development.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Mirko
>>
>> --
>> [1] http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=22012
>> [2] http://jodconverter.wiki.sourceforge.net/v3.0
>>
>>
>> 2008/6/5 Luis Arias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>>> 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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