Re: Export Org files to TWiki format

From: Russell Adams <RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.Com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Export Org files to TWiki format
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 23:18:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090508041818.GW25627@thinkpad.adamsinfoserv.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bycfxfgme8e.fsf@muchbodyking-lm.corp.yahoo.com>

You mean FOSWiki, right? ;]

On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 09:05:05PM -0700, Baoqiu Cui wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Recently I wrote an XSL stylesheet that converts DocBook documents to
> TWiki (http://www.twiki.org/) format, and it can be used to convert Org
> files to TWiki format using DocBook exporter as a bridge.  I have used
> it to generate some of my recent TWiki documents at work from Org mode
> files, and it worked pretty well.  Now Org-mode can be used as a TWiki
> editor.
> 
> If you are interested, you can get the stylesheet from
> 
>    http://docbook2twiki.googlecode.com
> 
> The following Elisp function can be used to export Org file to TWiki
> using this stylesheet (the only external tool that you need is
> ``xsltproc''):
> 
> (defun org-export-as-twiki ()
>   "Export Org file to TWiki."
>   (interactive)
>   (message "Exporting to TWiki...")
>   (let* ((wconfig (current-window-configuration))
> 	 (docbook-buf (org-export-as-docbook))
> 	 (filename (buffer-file-name docbook-buf))
> 	 (base (file-name-sans-extension filename))
> 	 (twiki-file (concat base ".twiki")))
>     (and (file-exists-p twiki-file) (delete-file twiki-file))
>     (message "Processing DocBook XML file...")
>     (shell-command
>      (format "xsltproc --output %s /Users/bcui/docbook2twiki/docbook2twiki.xsl %s"
> 	     twiki-file (shell-quote-argument filename)))
>     (message "Processing DocBook file...done")
>     (if (not (file-exists-p twiki-file))
> 	(error "TWiki file was not produced")
>       (set-window-configuration wconfig)
>       (message "Exporting to TWiki...done")
>       twiki-file)))
> 
> Originally I started with writing Org-to-TWiki exporter in Elisp, but
> realized that I had to duplicate a lot of code from the DocBook exporter
> after 99% of the work was done.  Writing the stylesheet is little harder
> for me, but it proves that DocBook exporter can be helpful in some
> case. ;-)
> 
> Please let me know if you have any comments.
> 
> Thanks,
> Baoqiu
> 
> 
> 
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