Hi, Thanks for your interest in XWiki and GSoC.
On 2/18/2010 6:24 PM, shelan Perera wrote: > Hi devs, > > I am Shelan Perera 3rd Year university Student of University of Moratuwa Sri > Lanka who is currently an intern in Open Source Web Services Solutions > developing company( WSO2).I am interested in participating in Google Summer > of code this year and conducted a research on Xwiki and specially on Xwiki > Office Importer. > > I am glad to see a project using Open Office Server (which is currently > managed inside the Office Importer module) to export to word and pdf. > > When i used the Office Importer i realised that it is really necessay to > have Open Office Process as a Separate Utility module which is consumed by > Open Office Importer and Open Office Exporter.Since the current > implementation is okay since there is only importer module. > I hope that this potential architectural change is not actually observable by simple usage of the importer ;) Yes this is something that probably needs to be done if we want to use OOo for export and preview too. > I am not clear about the suggested way of implementation(whether it is a > nested module in the office importer or a separate module).Could you please > elaborate more on that. > This is something you need to decide in tight collaboration with Asiri and the rest of the community. It is best that you create a design page for your proposal(to be determined where) and regularly come back to the mailing list for opinions. To see how the module evolves you should also follow Asiri's work on the office preview feature during the 2.3 dev cycle. Florin Ciubotaru > Regards, > > Shelan Perera. > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs

