I'm kind of playing around with WIKIs at the moment. I'm most interested in DokuWiki because it's a file-based system rather than using MySql. DokuWiki has plugins for export to different formats (OpenOffice, LaTex, and XHTML, for example). I'm not aware of import plugins yet.
I think the obvious problems are with graphics (must be converted to a light-weight bitmap) and xrefs. Right now I'm manually converting Word files into the Wiki, just to see what issues arise. I suppose a Maker plug-in could be made that creates a DokuWiki tree out of a book, breaking the files into topics. I may start to think about that -- is there a bonafide interest? (Shoot, this could result in DokuWiki as an intermediate format for Maker -> Word conversions!) I guess the reverse would not be too hard to implement... DokuWiki -> Maker, especially since DokuWiki seems to have a plug-in that is sort of like making a book in DITA. A conversion from Word to DokuWiki seems more difficult to me, because I don't believe VBA exposes a Word document as well as the FDK exposes Maker docs. For example, how do you find bold text within a pgf? The FDK splits text into chunks along such boundaries, but I'm not aware of anything similar in Word VBA. So I guess you would have to do transforms on RTF. I'm not there, yet... Anybody have any suggestions? cud
