At Wed, 12 Jan 2000 23:28:18 +0200 (EET), Henri Bergius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>On 12 Jan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> This is semi-related...
>
>Actually, it is quite much related to the subject.
>I think we should try to make the parser system
>generic enough that you could also support converters
>to/from obscure document formats like MS Word.
Parsers = good.
Have seen editthispage? It's an interesting idea,although I think the implementation
they provide -sucks-. Anyway (www.editthispage.com), they allow you to control
the site layout with XML. It'd be nifty to add XML parsing so that you could
let people control things with that.
>
>The parser system is probably something that will
>wait until Midgard 2.x, so at this point you'll
>have to create the conversion mechanisms a bit
>differently.
oh. :( That's a drag. *waits anxiously for Mid2*
>
>First (and probably easiest) way to do this is to
>use Word's native 'Save as HTML' option. Of course,
This is what I didn't want to do. But you knew that.
>the HTML this system produces is way too messy to
>be served on a site, so you'll want to first clean
>it up either manually or with a script. This might
>be easier if you can set down the authors to only
>use some specific templates and formatting
>conventions. To make this more automatic, you could
*nods*
>have a page in Midgard that would receive the
>Word Doc in HTML format, run it through a script
>that cleans it up, and then save it to Midgard's
>article database. Maybe you will want to also
>store the original Word document as an attachment
>to that article to make later editing easier.
Good idea. How do I do attachments? (that is, is there a nice elegant way
to do it, or do I just put a path in an extra field or something?)
>
>The second way would be to have the authors just
>send the Word document to the server, and do all
>the conversions there. I've seen some Open Source
>Word-to-HTML converters out there but I'm not
>sure how good they are:
> http://word2x.alcom.co.uk/
> http://www.wvWare.com/
>This would be easier to authors but possibly more
>complex to set up.
I want easy for the authors... They are primarily high school teachers.
They don't have time (nor inclination) to learn a complex system. Its my
job to be complex, and theirs to be simple. :)
Thanks for the links - those are exactly what I needed to know.
>
>The third way would be to write a custom set of
>VBA macros to handle it all. I discussed this
>possibility with some developers at Stonesoft back
>when we were implementing Midgard 0.1 there, but
>nothing came of it (and these days we just use
>Midgard's :F text parser).
Too bad :( What would those macros entail/do?
>
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