On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Asiri Rathnayake wrote: >> Hi Devs, >> >> When converting office documents into html (before they are transformed into >> xwiki syntax) lots of style information gets added into the html. For an >> example : >> >> <p class="western">Text in a <sup><span >> style="color:;font-family=;font-size=2pt;">superscript</span></sup>format</p> >> >> And finally when this is transformed into xwiki syntax, the result will look >> something like : >> >> (% class="western" %) >> Text in a ^^(% style="color:;font-family=;font-size=2pt;" >> %)superscript^^(%%) format >> >> The problem with this is, the resulting xwiki document will have lot's of >> (%%) elements which makes it difficult to make modifications in wiki mode. >> And another argument is that content is more important than style (vincent). >> >> So, there are three options : >> >> 1. Rip off style information. > > What is expressible with wiki markup should be kept (headings, bold, > superscript...). No font information, please.
+1 > >> 2. Keep style information as it is. >> >> 3. Give the user an option to select between 1 and 2. >> >> I'm going with 3. :) > > +1 for 3. > >> WDYT ? >> >> Thanks. >> >> - Asiri >> > > > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs

