Guillaume Lerouge wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> 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. >> We should at least keep the font size or convert it to the closest heading. > > > I'd be in favour of removing parameters that do not directly translate into > XWiki 2.0 syntax items in all cases (otherwise imported documents will not > have a consistent look across the wiki). This would mean getting rid of font > size, font color and font family in all cases, without even allowing the > user to do so. > This is how XWord behaves right now and IMO it can be quite disturbing for the user to see big differences between the original document and the wiki layout. XWord will use OfficeImporter for some of it's features and I prefer to be able to choose between keeping the style data and not keeping it. Here's my +1 for 3. > WDYT? > > Guillaume > > > >> >>> 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 >> >> > > > >
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