[Orgmode] Re: Export Org files to TWiki format

[Baoqiu Cui]

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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