This could be a very cool tool. It looks like you can't have headings in the html content as they get converted to nodes, is this correct? Also, have you though about using HTMLTidy (http://tidy.sourceforge.net) to clean up the word HTML?
>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >Of Gavin Cooney >Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 2:24 AM >To: FarCry Developers >Subject: [farcry-dev] New Quick site builder > >Hi all, > >It seems that every time I'm given a farcry site to do I'm >given huge amounts of content in MS Word format to copy up there. > >As you all know, this is a pain in the arse. First you have to >work out the site structure for the quick site builder and >then copy and paste into hundreds of pages. Plus you have to >tidy up HTML etc. So i figured there must be an easier way. >It turns out that there is. > >Download Open Office from www.openoffice.org, and open your >word document in open office word. Then File Save as the >regular open office document format. The beauty of this is >that it's a bunch of XML files (and maybe some images) zipped up. > >Once you have the file, rename it something.zip. Use any >unzipper to extract it and open content.xml. The whole >document is there. > >So i've written a few cfm pages that goes thru this xml and >does am import into farcry. This is based on Quentin Zervaas's >work on the current quick site builder. Here's how it works: > >The document should be laid out with word document headings. >I've used them for years, because tables of contents are >easier this way. This forms the basis of the site structure in >the same way as the current quick site builder. > >In the current quick site builder you'd do this: >Item 1 >-Item 1.2 >--Item 1.2.1 >-Item 1.3 >Item 2 >-Item 2.1 >--Item 2.2 >Item 3 > >Here you just apply "Heading 1" to items 1, 2 & 3. "Heading 2" >to items 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2 and "Heading 3' to the remaining >headings (you can go as deep as you want). > >Then any text between headings is parsed to html and copied >into the body of the page. > >Only basic html is supported at the moment, but i'll work on >that. (or you can help me!). >Text (just paragraphs) >tables >unordered lists >ordered lists >nested lists >lists inside a table etc > >NO support so far for: >bold >italics >spans >images >links > >Anything that is not supported is marked in the body with ><strong>xxxx to be added</strong>. So you can find them by >doing a verity search afterwards. > >I just got my thesis that i wrote in 2000 (146 printed pages) >and made it into a 176 page farcry site in about 5 minutes... >of course it's not perfect- images are missing etc, but i can >go back and edit that stufff. > > >I've a few sites built entirely around non-dmHTML objects and >around different display methods. So on the confirm page, you >can chose an object type and display method for each page. It >defaults to dmHTML displayStandard. > >I've found that some word documents come with shortish pages >(well shortish distances between headings). In this case, i'd >just move a load of generated pages under the same nav, and >make them all a display method that does a table of contents. > >At the moment you have to paste in the contents of the >content.xml file. You also have to remove the <!DOCTYPE> at >the start of the xml. >Mark lynch has offered to add a feature where you just upload >the Open office doc and it does the unzipping using the >underlying java stuff... so stay tuned for that. Once this is >done, i'll add image support. > > >So anyway, there it is. It's not perfect, but it works. I'll >be adding more features in the next days/ weeks. > >Hope you like it. > >Gav > > --- You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
