Re: [Wyonacms-users] Lenya and OpenOffice

Hi Christian, hello list,

I read about your project some days ago on the OSCOM Blog and I was 
very curious what was it about and what kind of results you achieved. 
Seems, like you mad some interesting discoveries...

I strongly encourage you to follow this path and to integrate the 
documentation and - if you got one - a small example in Lenya. I see a 
lot of potential in the fact, that OO Write can be used as an editor 
for complex structured or pretty lenghty texts. Just think of all the 
(potential) uses of Docbook! A browser based tool for editing might 
fail, because of it's lack of features and it's restrictions regarding 
Spellchecking or navigation. On the other hand, OO might be accepted by 
a user which notation of a text editor during the last years sums up to 
Word. After a real short time he will be able to use this new editor...

 From my point of view another big advantage of OO, compared with other 
stand-alone WYSIWYG XML-Editors like Authentic or XXE is, that OO seems 
pretty stable to me. And this fact is quite important, if you are 
working with such a tool all day long. And last but not least, if you 
are working in a team (who doesn't?), the files are created by you but 
they might be used by all your collegues. However most of them just 
need the contents, formated in a different manner. Do I hear a mumbling 
of the three letters CMS??? ;-)

Markus


Am Mittwoch, 19.03.03 um 18:41 Uhr schrieb Christian Egli:

>
> Hi all
>
> As you might know we were at the OSCOM sprint in Zuerich last
> week. Felix and I worked on the integration of OpenOffice and
> Lenya. This has been made possible due to the fact that OpenOffice
> uses XML as its native file format. IMHO we were quite successful.
> After two days we were able to:
>
> * drop an OpenOffice document in a webfolder on the desktop
>
> * from where it was handed to the web server via WebDAV and served
>   back via Lenya and Tomcat.
>
> * and have it show up in a web browser including the layout of the
>   original document (headings, fonts, etc), tables, etc. all nicely
>   aggregated with the navigation, header and footer of the existing
>   site.
>
> This setup is extremely flexible. We have used a standard XSLT which
> transforms the OpenOffice content into fairly plain html. Of course
> any other transformation could be applied to suit your particular needs
>
> This can be used if you like to edit your content on the desktop with
> a familiar desktop application (e.g. for an intranet) or also for
> migration purposes if you have lots of word documents that need to be
> published.
>
> This setup could perceivably also be used for Microsoft Office 11
> (which also uses XML as a document format). We'll have to see about
> that when we see the XML that is produced by it.
>
> Attached is a description on how to reproduce this.
>
> If there is enough interest I will integrate it into Lenya.
>
> <openoffice.html>
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