Re: [Pyblosxom-devel] Entryparsers, what are they?

[Wari W. <wa...@ho...>]

Wari Wahab wrote:

> I've checked in some code today, basically infrastucture stuff. But what
> the heck is infrastructure and what am I actually doing. I've got to
> answer this question first I guess.

I do wish that you guys would give some feedback concerning this before 
I loose my morale, oh well never mind? Does silence means I should go 
ahead and do it?

> 2. Multiple entry file types

Any way, to boost my morale back up again, I saw this message on the 
blosxom mailing list - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blosxom/message/567

Which mentions:
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I read about another piece of blogging software that had some very
interesting differences - the feature that I took notice of was the
ability to parse files of different file formats and render them in
HTML.

So I got to thinking: After the plug-ins support comes, it would be
neat to write plug-ins that would, upon encountering certain file
extensions, process the file a bit differently, possibly converting to
html in the process, and dumping the result to the page. For example,
a .csv file could be converted into a table automatically. This
obviously would be a cute first step... but then we could look at doing
rtf->html conversions, or .doc -> html conversions... much more useful,
don't you think?
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Yes I'm proud that at certain features, we are the innovators :) And 
this was only after yesterday when I checked in entryparsers.. People 
are watching :)