[Freemind-developer] HTML - Export

[Dimitry P. <dpo...@gm...>]

Hallo,

I am working on a proper HTML - Export as a replacement for the RTF - 
Export which is not able to export nodes with HTML properly. My current 
code bases on the old saveHTML methods of MindMapNodeModel and 
MindMapMapModel. I have transformed this code to a new class 
MindMapHTMLWriter.

Currently this writer is used for two purposes: for exporting of HTML in 
the clipboard ( the new usage) and for exporting of HTML as a new HTML 
file (as used before). I have found that the old functionality has been 
partly broken: there are some problems by export of icons etc.

Those problems are not relevant for copying the HTML to clipboard 
because I can not copy the pictures inside of HTML. And there are some 
new excellent methods for making XHTML files. So I would like to make 
the following:

1. Remove RTF from the list of supported data flavors and remove all 
saveRTF, getAsRTF methods because they can not deal with the new HTML stuff.

2. Use HTML data flavor for exchange with the other applications via 
clipboard (currently I use headings <h1>-<h6> for building the Mind Map 
Hierarchy, but I could also use the lists <ul> or <ol>. I can easily 
replace the heading based solution with the list based one, but I would 
like to get your feedback first).

3. Limit the functionality of the MindMapHTMLWriter to preparing the 
data for the clipboard and use only the new XSLT based techniques for 
producing the (X)HTML files. The old Actions "Export as HTML" and 
"Export branch as HTML" should also be removed.

The proposed measures do not reduce the functionality of FreeMind, we 
would just throw away the old things that can not work any more and use 
the new well working replacements.

The export of HTML to the clipboard has already been committed to CVS. I 
would like to get your opinions before I cut the old bad parts away. You 
can try the new stuff e.g. by copying parts of the map and pasting them 
into notes or HTML - based nodes. In the last case you can apply the new 
action "edit->split" to the big HML nodes for splitting them into 
smaller parts.

I am looking forward to your feedback,

Best regards, Dimitri