Hi,

Would this work with objects?

Say we have an addressbook (e.g. in XML format). If I create a class
ContactPerson in XWiki, can I populate XWiki with instances of contact
objects (1 per page)?

Thanks,

Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Guillaume Lerouge
> Sent: February 14, 2009 12:56 PM
> To: XWiki Users
> Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Migrating articles into xwiki
> 
> Hi,
> 
> XWiki Pages are stored as XML files. You can look at the XML 
> representation of a standard XWiki pages (export as XAR, 
> rename to ZIP, unzip, look inside the folder). Then try to 
> find which XWL fields from your original XML format could be 
> converted into XWiki document fields (especially web, name, 
> title, creation date and content).
> 
> Once you've decided which mapping to use, write and launch 
> your XSLT script.
> Then you'll have a bunch of XWiki pages as XML. Look at the 
> output of a XWiki XAR export to see what the description file 
> looks like and write one with the name of your pages inside.
> 
> Put everything into a folder, zip it, rename it to .xar, try 
> importing it.
> If the import fails, try splitting it into a number of smaller XARs.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Guillaume
> 
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Gerritjan Koekkoek < 
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi.
> >
> > We have a repository of articles (our Old CMS) we would 
> like to import 
> > into xwiki automatically.
> > These Articles are in a propietary XML format, one XML file 
> per article.
> >
> > What would be the best approach?
> > We have ability to restructure/transform xml into another 
> xml by means 
> > of xslt.
> >
> > Which approaches could we research?
> >
> > Gerritjan
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