Re: Convert wysiwyg documents with WML?

[Fritz Zaucker <nospam@thanx>]

Christian Jaeger <christian.jaeger@rektorat.ethz.ch> writes:

You can re-define any HTML-Tag with WML.

The problem might be that your WYSIWYG-editor might produce rather
stupid HTML-code in the first place (e.g. not do structural markup)
and then there is probably no tool in the world that will be able to
fix it. The save-as-html function of MS-Word comes to mind as an
example of how to create rather unusable HTML-code (tags are not
properly nested, for example: <B><I>some text</B></I>).

Fritz

> Hello!
> 
> I'm looking for a system for publishing a medium size site (~100
> documents), and that is suitable for this purpose: I want to write html
> source documents in a wysiwyg editor with only very few formatting (only
> functional formatting), and then convert these raw documents to the ones on
> the Web. So the difference to  html preprocessor systems (like htmlpp) is,
> that I do NOT want to 'program' the layout etc. in the source documents -
> programming should be done only in the conversion routines/settings. The
> raw docs should be entertainable by people who don't know anything about
> the layout (except to give perhaps some directives like writing
> "{tabletype=list}" above a table to give the converter information about
> the kind of table, or writing "{arrow}" which should be replaced by a gif
> with an arrow ...)
> 
> So this system will have to replace tags, put whole groups of elements from
> the source document in a table, include a header, copy the contents of h1
> or h2 headers to the title and so on. I've started to program this myself,
> with the help of HTML::TreeBuilder (perl, from Gisle Aas) (it seems to
> become more work than I have time ...)
> 
> Now I've found WML, but am not sure if it is suitable for this kind of
> things. Has someone done something similar?
> 
> Thanks!
> Chris Jaeger
> 
> 
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