On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 13:45, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Arun, > > On Mar 20, 2011, at 1:32 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> Hi Devs, >> >> I would like to improve Wiki Importer sandbox project, by making few changes >> to the design to widen it scope of usage, and make sure its useful to the >> community. > > Great! > >> In the existing one ( >> http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/contrib/sandbox/xwiki-wikiimporter/), I >> have implemented import from MediaWiki XML. >> >> Limitations: >> * listener implementation is tightly coupled with storage ( Importing/Saving >> pages or other objects into XWiki). >> * listener doesnt include all the xwiki related events. >> * No separate storage component, that can enable both imports and exports ( >> e.g. export the parsed content into XAR ). >> >> Existing documentation on WikiImporter : >> http://gsoc.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Import+Export+other+wikis/WebHome >> http://gsoc.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Import+Export+other+wikis/Wiki+Importer+Enhancement >> >> Can i move the design documentation to Design Proposal wiki.? >
+1 > Definitely. > >> As Thomas suggested, it will be good to rename wiki importer to converter as >> it is not limited to importing only, So am planning to change it to >> WikiConverter. >> >> WDYT? > > Sounds good to me although I don't know enough to judge. I liked importer > since I thought it was about importer data from another wiki into XWiki. What > other features is there? Millions of features ;) At first yes but it became an event system where you can have some exported wiki as input and a db importer as output. But you could also change the output for a car exported for example. And ad input you can have a database reader, etc... Basically the goal is to do the new XWiki import/export system as well as a lots of use case like migrate a wiki by puting a REST importer as input and a database writer as output, etc... Importing other wikis would be just one use case among others. > > Thanks > -Vincent > _______________________________________________ > 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
