Asiri Rathnayake wrote: > Hi Devs, > > When converting office documents into html (before they are transformed into > xwiki syntax) lots of style information gets added into the html. For an > example : > > <p class="western">Text in a <sup><span > style="color:;font-family=;font-size=2pt;">superscript</span></sup>format</p> > > And finally when this is transformed into xwiki syntax, the result will look > something like : > > (% class="western" %) > Text in a ^^(% style="color:;font-family=;font-size=2pt;" > %)superscript^^(%%) format > > The problem with this is, the resulting xwiki document will have lot's of > (%%) elements which makes it difficult to make modifications in wiki mode. > And another argument is that content is more important than style (vincent). > > So, there are three options : > > 1. Rip off style information.
What is expressible with wiki markup should be kept (headings, bold, superscript...). No font information, please. > 2. Keep style information as it is. > > 3. Give the user an option to select between 1 and 2. > > I'm going with 3. :) +1 for 3. > WDYT ? > > Thanks. > > - Asiri > -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs

