Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > Thanks, marbux! That extension sounds like a good possibility, if is > easy for me to use and gives acceptable output. If we have the wiki as > source, my main need will be to convert from wiki to ODT.
If we want to move to the wiki as the main collaborative platform we need mediawiki->ODF and mediawiki->PDF conversion processes. Ideally, these would hook into some sort of TOC template where you can specify the order of wiki pages for the final book. I will definitely be looking into finding a solution for this to be able to deliver information "offline" (outside of the wiki). I will take a look at the links posted by marbux and Alan and see if there is something we could build upon. In my team Clayton has some experience in creating books from wiki content but with another wiki engine. Here is what I think we need: 1) Specify a TOC to define the order of wiki pages in the final output -> this should be fairly easily doable by using the TOC templates we already starting to implement on the wiki 2) Export the corresponding pages from the wiki in the correct sequence -> we can use the built-in export feature of mediawiki 3) Convert the output into XML -> that's either ODF-XML or XML-FO for creating PDFs technically, this should be easy using XSLT. However, some effort is required to write up the conversion style sheets and test them 4) Create PDF If we have ODF we can use the OOo export feature, if we have XML-FO, we can use e.g. Apache FO for PDF creation Issues: - Mediawiki does not support image export (or does it?) - The process should be controlled by a script that accesses the wiki, fetches the pages, converts them and creates PDF (did anyone say "Perl"? ;-) Anything else? Frank > --Jean > > > marbux wrote: >> I haven't tried it, but there is a Mediawiki extension for the >> purpose. <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wiki2xml>. The >> example links to the >> following page: >> >> "Magnus' magic MediaWiki-to-XML-to-stuff converter" >> http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/wiki2xml/w2x.php >> >> [...] >> Outputs: >> [...] >> OpenOffice ODT References as endnotes (instead of footnotes) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- The OOo Documentation Project: SIGN UP - PARTICIPATE - CONTRIBUTE IT'S FREE! NO OBLIGATIONS! http://documentation.openoffice.org http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
