Re: Export Org files to TWiki format

From: Baoqiu Cui <cbaoqiu@yahoo.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Export Org files to TWiki format
Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 21:48:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <byc7i0smc7z.fsf@muchbodyking-lm.corp.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20090508043314.GX25627@thinkpad.adamsinfoserv.com

Russell Adams <RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.Com> writes:

> Foswiki forked TWiki after they started going commercial. The whole
> sordid tale is online, but all the core devs went to FOSWiki. Last I
> checked TWiki was just treading water.
>
> I'm converting. ;]

If it is true that most of the TWiki contributors are moving to Foswiki,
then it is a good move to convert.

No matter what, Foswiki and TWiki should try to be 100% compatible.

Baoqiu

> On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 09:29:37PM -0700, Baoqiu Cui wrote:
>> Hi Russell,
>> 
>> Russell Adams <RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.Com> writes:
>> 
>> > You mean FOSWiki, right? ;]
>> 
>> This is surprising news to me!  I was not aware of the existence of
>> Foswiki!  Thanks for the info!  Foswiki looks very nice.
>> 
>> Hope that Foswiki syntax is compatible with TWiki.
>> 
>> Baoqiu
>> 
>> 
>> > 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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