Nirmal Sasidharan Messages: 120 Registered: July 2009 Location: Germany
Senior Member
Does WikiText include DocumentBuilders for Wiki markups. I saw that it has for HTML, DocBook etc. Is there a way to serialize into a Wiki format? For example, read Confluence and write Textile?
This is a great idea. A DocumentBuilder that emits Textile markup would
enable conversion from any of the other formats supported by Mylyn
WikiText. Contributions in this area are most welcome.
David
On 9/15/2010 11:28 AM, Nirmal Sasidharan wrote:
> Does WikiText include DocumentBuilders for Wiki markups. I saw that it
> has for HTML, DocBook etc. Is there a way to serialize into a Wiki
> format? For example, read Confluence and write Textile?
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Nirmal
Nirmal Sasidharan Messages: 120 Registered: July 2009 Location: Germany
Senior Member
Hello David,
Thanks for your reply.
I wrote a DocumentBuilder for Textile and Redmine and it seems to works quite fine. This is part of a customer project and I am in talk with them on making this open source. They have to clear some legal/IP issues before taking this step.
This is part of the larger framework called Model based Wiki. The customer has a lot of EMF based models and they wanted to easily generate some Wiki documentation out of it. I developed a EMFDocumentBuilder which creates a EMF based model for any Wiki format. I also wrote a EMFLanguage which enables this model to be written out using any DocumentBuilders that you already have. A roundtrip seems to deliver files without any difference.
My customer has agreed to let me write about it in my blog I will write some details about it soon. Looking forward to get some feedback from you on this.
On 10/8/2010 12:56 AM, Nirmal Sasidharan wrote:
> I wrote a DocumentBuilder for Textile and Redmine and it seems to works
> quite fine. This is part of a customer project and I am in talk with
> them on making this open source. They have to clear some legal/IP issues
> before taking this step.
This sounds really great. Hopefully they can see the value in packaging
this up as a small contribution: exposure to more users and developers
will certainly harden the solution and reduce the maintenance overhead.
> This is part of the larger framework called Model based Wiki. The
> customer has a lot of EMF based models and they wanted to easily
> generate some Wiki documentation out of it. I developed a
> EMFDocumentBuilder which creates a EMF based model for any Wiki format.
> I also wrote a EMFLanguage which enables this model to be written out
> using any DocumentBuilders that you already have. A roundtrip seems to
> deliver files without any difference.
This sounds very cool.
> My customer has agreed to let me write about it in my blog :) I will
> write some details about it soon. Looking forward to get some feedback
> from you on this.
Please post a link to your blog here when you've had a chance to write
it up. It sounds fascinating.