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

Reply via email to