Re: Openoffice-to-docbook converter

Thought I'd cc top pear dev just incase anyone else want to add anything. xml.openoffice.org/xmerge/docbook/ (note openoffice's site is not the most stable around. = probably on constant attack from MS's script kiddies) contains quite a bit of information about this - including a prelimary java extension to openoffice (which just crashed and died a horible death while trying to install itself - like most java programs :) however the site does contain a good reference on the subject - namely: a) a sample openoffice document in 'docbook format' b) the docbook source it came from. The background info is that I was working on a openoffice.org (get the name right :) to HTML convertor - that basically splits the documents based on Heading styles into pages, and I've started looking at extending that tool to deal with OOo-> <- docbook. I started looking at the docbook -> OOo a few evenings ago. So far: - you point it at the package/en/database/db-dataobject.xml file - it merges ../../../chapters.ent into the file (so the &xxxx; dont produce errors.) - when it hits the &xxx; entities, it uses an extended cdata method to do a recursive parse (still looking at the best method for this - whether it's worth pre-parsing and creating the base file..) - it then should go through and just create a content.xml file from a template or something. - need to work out how to build zip files in php (as the built in extension only reads them) For the OOo->docbook So far: - not started - details below detail how the html one works - based on the OOo->html converter - opens the content.xml file from the OOo zip file - sends it through a modified XML_Transformer (eg. extended and quite a few methods overwritten) - has various namespace handlers which deal with OOo's namespaces.. - add <!-- SECTION xxx --> to the source as it goes along to indicate file breaks. - final pass just preg_splits's on the <!-- SECTION tags, and puts them into files. This is the current oo->html code http://devel.akbkhome.com/OO2html.html usage is pretty simple |$t = new XML_Transformer_OO2Html; print_r($t->getIndex('/tmp/Xipe.sxw')); ||print_r($t->getPage('/tmp/Xipe.sxw','1')); ... || | Regards Alan Ant-1 wrote:

Hi ! I had your email from Wolfram, who told me you are working on something that could end being close to an openoffice-to-docbook converter. I'm a member of Pear-doc, and we are all really looking forward to a tool like this. So what is exactly that you are planning and when do you think you could show an alpha ? regards, Antoine Pouch

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