Gerald, I need an important feature, can you develop it as fast as you can ? The best timing is for this month.
I explain you, we have in our company RTF documents (about 150 documents), but we would like to convert RTF to XML and transform it for our Intranet to HTML. I don't know how to transform RTF to HTML using XSLT, I think your tool is quite adapted for it. My boss wants it as fast as possible, so I think to you because your tool is very good and free. If you can develop it inside your tool, I could help you after in your project. Note that this is quite urgent, I think it will help your tool with a new feature for RTF.
I would like but only for another project to see an XML document in WYSYSIG with CSS for editing easily. Can you add it in priority for your tool Gerald ?
Send me a mail for downloading the result, I promise you to test it for helping you debugging. Can you package it for linux with RPM ?
Bye
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From what I know of RTF, it has been implemented almost as inconsistently as HTML, So I don't think it will be a quick short task to build such a transformation tool from scratch.
However, you might find it easier to import your RTF files into a tool like OpenOffice.org Writer, which will then give you an XML format as output. It should also be possible to quickly convert those files to HTML.
For that matter, I would expect many word processing programs to be able to import an RTF file and save as an HTML file. (Other than MS Word on WinXP, I don't experience with any, however.)
Good luck!
Roger Sperberg
a huge fan of XML CE since Jan 2007
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Hi Larry, sorry about the delay - just back from a conference. If you send me an XSL stylesheet that converts RTF to XML (DocBook XML, say) I'd be happy to add an Import RTF option for the File menu to the to-do list. You could also grab xsltproc from somewhere (it's the command-line tool that comes with libxslt) and batch-convert your RTF files.
One source of complexity is that Linux distros don't want applications to bundle stylesheets that are maintained by members of the distro community (that's why I took out the TEI and DocBook transformations and schemas a little while back).
As for WYSIWYG editing I must confess that it's not close to the top of my list though it would of course be a wonderful feature: I've been trying to make time to implement full background validation all year and that remains the single most important missing feature in my eyes.
WYSIWYG would require a lot of time and I'm afraid I've been rather squeezed for development time this year.
Regards,
Gerald
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Gerald, this is not your job to do all the work, once initiated, you should delegate to other developpers, this is the way an open source project works. Your work is already fantastic starting from zero !!, any people interested should help developping, open source doesn't mean relax time using free developers and free products, this is a way developers share their source and improve it for the global interest.
Regards
Larry
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Gerald, I need an important feature, can you develop it as fast as you can ? The best timing is for this month.
I explain you, we have in our company RTF documents (about 150 documents), but we would like to convert RTF to XML and transform it for our Intranet to HTML. I don't know how to transform RTF to HTML using XSLT, I think your tool is quite adapted for it. My boss wants it as fast as possible, so I think to you because your tool is very good and free. If you can develop it inside your tool, I could help you after in your project. Note that this is quite urgent, I think it will help your tool with a new feature for RTF.
I would like but only for another project to see an XML document in WYSYSIG with CSS for editing easily. Can you add it in priority for your tool Gerald ?
Send me a mail for downloading the result, I promise you to test it for helping you debugging. Can you package it for linux with RPM ?
Bye
From what I know of RTF, it has been implemented almost as inconsistently as HTML, So I don't think it will be a quick short task to build such a transformation tool from scratch.
However, you might find it easier to import your RTF files into a tool like OpenOffice.org Writer, which will then give you an XML format as output. It should also be possible to quickly convert those files to HTML.
For that matter, I would expect many word processing programs to be able to import an RTF file and save as an HTML file. (Other than MS Word on WinXP, I don't experience with any, however.)
Good luck!
Roger Sperberg
a huge fan of XML CE since Jan 2007
Hi Larry, sorry about the delay - just back from a conference. If you send me an XSL stylesheet that converts RTF to XML (DocBook XML, say) I'd be happy to add an Import RTF option for the File menu to the to-do list. You could also grab xsltproc from somewhere (it's the command-line tool that comes with libxslt) and batch-convert your RTF files.
One source of complexity is that Linux distros don't want applications to bundle stylesheets that are maintained by members of the distro community (that's why I took out the TEI and DocBook transformations and schemas a little while back).
As for WYSIWYG editing I must confess that it's not close to the top of my list though it would of course be a wonderful feature: I've been trying to make time to implement full background validation all year and that remains the single most important missing feature in my eyes.
WYSIWYG would require a lot of time and I'm afraid I've been rather squeezed for development time this year.
Regards,
Gerald
Gerald, this is not your job to do all the work, once initiated, you should delegate to other developpers, this is the way an open source project works. Your work is already fantastic starting from zero !!, any people interested should help developping, open source doesn't mean relax time using free developers and free products, this is a way developers share their source and improve it for the global interest.
Regards
Larry