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Re: [Orgmode] Re: Export Org files to TWiki format


From: Russell Adams
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Re: Export Org files to TWiki format
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 23:33:14 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

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. ;]

On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 09:29:37PM -0700, Baoqiu Cui wrote:
> Hi Russell,
> 
> Russell Adams <address@hidden> 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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