Hi Daniel, I hope you're doing well. I was wondering whether you had had success with your Mindtouch to XWiki migration?
Best, Guillaume On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Dan T <daniel.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Thank you for your answer. Sorry to be late with this reply. This project > was on hold until last week. > > We have now one xwiki ready on a production server (RHEL7) and we are > ready to begin with it. > > I tried a lot of way to import data into xwiki from mindtouch but without > success. The only way I see right now is with manually with html pages. > > I can create a new page and insert the content in html format. Converted > or not in xwiki syntax, we can work with that. All the links in the pages > are working (and have to be corrected in the future to point to xwiki > instead of the old one) > > We have to review all the pages and recreate or move the content > progressively. A new structure will be applied and some of the pages will > be useless. > > The goal, right now, is to have all pages (660) available directly in > xwiki. That + the search tool will be enough. > > Then you need to have some code that does the looping over the 600 pages > you got. > > This is a part I’m interested in. A way to not have to click, copy and > paste with all the html pages. > > My knowledge is limited but I have some people around me to help me > achieve things i can’t do by myself. > > Thanks > > Daniel > > Le 9 décembre 2015 à 23:46:38, vinc...@massol.net (vinc...@massol.net) a > écrit: > > Hi Daniel, > > Let me start by saying that ideally XWiki should offer some tool to help > convert HTML content into wiki pages. That would be awesome and it’s doable > but we don’t have this yet. > > However XWiki internally supports parsing HTML. > > First thing you can try is to enable HTML 4.01 syntax in your XWiki > instance. Then create a new page, select HTML 4.01 as the page syntax and > copy paste the HTML you got. Save. Then edit again and switch to XWiki > Syntax 2.1 for example. This should convert the HTML to wiki markup. > > Now you’ll get some issues with this. Links are probably going to be off > for example. > > So what you really need is to create an HTML importer to transform the > HTML you got into an Annotated HTML format that XWiki supports. The > Annotated HTML format is an internal format used by XWiki when you edit a > page using the WYSIWYG editor and it’s a lossless format, meaning you can > convert it to XWiki Syntax without loosing any meaning/data. > > This requires some knowledge of that format and some massaging of your > HTML to transform it into this format. > > Then you need to have some code that does the looping over the 600 pages > you got. > > This is quite technical. You’d need first to tell us your level of > technical knowledge so that we could try to help you. > > Another option (the simplest for sure, especially if you’re not that > technical or don’t have the time to delve deeply into the technical > details) would be to contact one of the companies offering professional > support for XWiki and asking them if they’d be interested in making a quote > for doing this job for you. There are some listed at > http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Support#HProfessionalSupport > > Hope it helps, > -Vincent > > > On 9 Dec 2015 at 12:01:15, Daniel Tibô (daniel.t...@gmail.com(mailto: > daniel.t...@gmail.com)) wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > In our department, the actuel wiki is based on Mindtouch/dekiwiki and we > > want to go to for a global wiki for the company with Xwiki. > > > > To do that, we need to transfer our data from the actual wiki and I > > managed to extract all the pages in HTML format (600+ files). > > > > I have found in the mailing list history a reply from Vincent in August > > 2013 to a similar request : > > > > ------ > > > > Hi Jason, > > > > I don't know of any existing Mindtouch converter to XWiki. However there > > are several handmade converter tools on http://extensions.xwiki.org that > > could serve as examples. > > > > What is the markup syntax used by Mindtouch? I have the feeling they > > only provide HTML which would be fine since XWiki's Rendering can > > convert HTML into wiki markup for example (or keep it as HTML too). > > > > So converting a page would be: > > * Read the export format from Mindtouch (what is it? XML?) > > * Use the XWiki API to create a wiki page, convert the HTML content to > > wiki markup (easy to do), add attachments > > > > Also note that Thomas Mortagne (one of the XWiki committer) is currently > > working on a wiki stream API that is an ideal scaffolding for > > importing/exporting wikis: > > https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/wiki-stream . But there's non trivial > > dev work to be done to make it work. > > > > Another idea is to contact one of the companies providing professional > > services around XWiki and ask them how much it would cost for a > > conversion: > > http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Support#HProfessionalSupport > > > > Hope it helps, > > -Vincent > > > > ------ > > > > Could you please point me to the right direction to convert my 600+ HTML > > pages to xwiki markup ? > > > > If you have any information to help me for the integration, that would > > be very kind of you > > > > Thank you for your help. > > > > Daniel. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
