Yeah, at the moment you can't use headings in the html. But it would
be a very small job to add a code into the word doc and output that as
html.

**h2**My Heading**/h2**

or something.

Also, it doesn't use word html. I parse the xml and output html. So
it's as clean as it can get. Basically just text, tables, lists. No
formatting at all.

Gav


On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 16:36:25 -0500, Nathan Mische <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> 
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