On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Clayton wrote:
Is there any thought or (future) plan to use MediaWiki as an input source?
That'd be pretty ugly, IMHO. We have thought of it and it would be wonderful if there were any way that wouldn't involve messy tweaking of the "so-called" XML you'd get if you ran some basic conversion scripts over the Wiki files. XML to Wiki, as you said, is pretty straightforward, but going from Wiki to XML you'd get just the very basic of markup if any and would have to do lots and lots of manual tweaking to the Wiki-originated XML, before it blend in with the other generic doc.
Has anyone successfully managed to go from MediaWiki source to XML and then on (via Apache FO) to PDF? (the XML to PDF is relatively easy... it's the Wiki to XML that's looking ugly to me).
Yep. Ugly is the right word for it, I am afraid. The XML to PDF being easy depends on whether your layouts and stylesheets are supported by FOP :( -- Jana Jaeger jjaeger@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Documentation Maxfeldstr. 5 +49 (0) 911 74053-0 D-90409 Nuernberg http://www.novell.com/linux SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)