Subject: Re: Windows Write import
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Tue Oct 23 2001 - 13:30:50 CDT
According to Sean Young <sean@mess.org>:
> All,
>
> I'm working on Windows Write (.wri) import, and it's working quite well. I
> was wondering if anyone else is working on this. The code needs cleaning
> up for before I release it, also it's command-line right now.
I started work on that, but it fall behind everything else on my priority
list.
There is some stuff in CVS, but apparently yours seems to work better (no
doubt for that). That is a great news. One item I can stroke... :-)
(I have seen your bugzilla comment. I just forgot to reply to it).
[...]
> Formatting, tabs, indentation work now. There is no OLE support and
> images are largely untested (simply because I only have one Write file
> with an image, see above).
I have some sample I'm willing to share.
> I'm simply outputting xml with fprintf (fout, "<?xml ..."); now; is this
> alright or should I do this differently?
Use PD_Document class for that. Have a look at other importer. We current
import directly in a document object that abstract everything internally.
But I'm sure you it won't be hard to change your XML output....
If you want real time help, feel free to join us on IRC, server
irc.gnome.org, channel #abiword ...
Hub
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