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David Gerarddgerard@gmail.com 28/11/2006 00:42 >>>

On 27/11/06, Ricardo Rodríguez - Your XEN ICT Team webmaster@xen.net wrote: I also agree with Fernando: some content could act as a trigger for participation. In my case these "useful contents" have a clear end: a paper sent to a publisher, lets say, for instance, Science. So the full example must include how it is expected the content developed within the wiki environment can be exported to the required format. That is why I am concern about this issue. Please, David, have you any experience with this particular? Thanks.

I don't with this particular case. I suppose an academic paper could be co-developed via a wiki page quite well - start from notes and end up with a coherent and clearly-written paper.

And this is already happening here! And people are happy with the new environment. Even people being very sceptic at the very beginning. Early entries act as triggers as Fernando says.

As for exporting wiki contents, the precise magazine/publisher doesn't mind at this point. What I am trying to clear up is the process. From a previous message sent by you following the current thread:

"Mediawiki text->XML is already in Mediawiki, isn't it? You'd need the right XSLT to turn that into OpenDocument or any other XML format. ("the right XSLT" is a phrase like "simple matter of programming")"

But all I am able to find is a XML export extension that will tag all but body contents. And this is not useful for document transformation into any required format.

For instance, please, take a look at this...

http://nvx.environmentalchange.net/@rrodriguez/R/R_SpecialExport.xml

<text></text> contents the body of the article. And Mediawiki tagging is unchanged. So, from the required transformation point of view it is the same to copy and paste the edition window content in any text editor or exporting it to this XML file. Any XSLT can manage XML tagging, but I don't need XSLT to manage plain text or Mediawiki tagging. But of course it will be harder to substitute Mediawiki tagging with the required tags needed, lets say, by a FrameMaker document.

Please, what I am trying to know is the state of the art with article exportation from Mediawiki. Accept my apologies if my questions are too basic, but I am not able to get the whole point. Thanks for any information!

All the best,

Ricardo

-- Ricardo Rodríguez Your XEN ICT Team