> David
Gerard<dgerard(a)gmail.com> 28/11/2006 00:42 >>>
On 27/11/06, Ricardo
Rodríguez - Your XEN ICT Team <webmaster(a)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
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Ricardo Rodríguez
Your XEN ICT Team