>>> David Gerard<dgerard gmail.com> 28/11/2006
00:42 >>>
>On 27/11/06, Ricardo Rodríguez - Your XEN ICT Team
<webmasterxen.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.enviro
nmentalchange.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
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