Sylvain Wallez wrote:
Jon Evans wrote:
Hi Sylvain,
On 25 Jun 2004, at 11:42, Sylvain Wallez wrote:
Now we have that nice thing called OpenOffice that is a wordprocessor
storing its content as XML in a zip archive. We've used it as a
front-end for a CMS, providing template documents with style sheets that
have to be used. These styles match the structure of the target XML
document that is produced from the OO file. This solution just rocks, as
anybody (even a boss :-) is able to write content in a userfriendly and
productive environment with spell checking, typing completion, etc etc.
On the CMS side, the sxw archive is exploded, the XML content is
transformed into the target markup (e.g. DocBook) and images are stored.
That's an inspired solution - is it all proprietary or is your code published somewhere?
It's proprietary, but some basic blocks that were needed to build it are now in Cocoon: ZipArchiveSerializer, CVSSource (at cocoondev.org), some parts of Cocoon Forms, etc.
Sylvain
It is possible to use OpenOffice-Writer documents in Forrest - see the examples after seeding a new Forrest project. For me this works well. I think this could be interesting for Cocoon too.
Currently the .sxw docs are stored and during the rendering process the ZIPSource is used to extract the content and create the documentation.
-- Reinhard, writing this without reading the whole thread
