Posted by bonobo on February 13, 2009 at 7:17pm
Hello, all,
I just saw this come through from btopro: http://drupal.org/project/word_import
This looks awesome! Bryan -- I can't wait to test this out!
Cheers,
Bill
Word Import
Group organizers
Group categories
Education Group Tags
- 25live (1)
- academic level (1)
- active learning (3)
- adaptivity (1)
- admissions (1)
- advocacy (3)
- Alumni Website (1)
- application forms (1)
- Assessment (1)
- assessment formative summative (1)
- assignment_calendar (2)
- Atom (1)
- Authoring (3)
- best practices (6)
- Biblio records for Education (2)
- blackboard (1)
- blog (2)
- bof (2)
- Book lending (2)
Comments
Ha thanks, have found 2
Ha thanks, have found 2 needs that this would meet currently and some code snippets that allow word importing so we'll see where this goes. Gona start writing it monday.
"Plaguing the world with Drupal; One Plone, Moodle, Wordpress, Joomla user at a time since 2005." ~ btopro
http://elearning.psu.edu/
http://elearning.psu.edu/projects/
http://elearning.psu.edu/drupalineducation/
Ex Uno Plures
http://elmsln.org/
http://btopro.com/
http://drupal.psu.edu/
Different approach: OpenOffice Wiki Publisher
Hello Bryan,
I really appreciate your efforts of finding a way to create Drupal content with your familiar word processor.
However, in my experience Microsoft Word is a quite unwieldy format to work with. A different approach would be to use OpenOffice instead. OpenOffice's native format is XML based and OpenOffice contains an export filter for MediaWiki format which would provide a clean text based intermediary format for export/import purposes. (You can also publish directly to a MediaWiki server from OpenOffice.)
And as OpenOffice is capable of opening Word documents this would even provide a path for importing Microsoft files.
Here you can find more information:
Sun Wiki Publisher
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/wikipublisher
Sun Wiki Publisher extension for OpenOffice.org shines
http://www.linux.com/feature/134684
Kind regards,
Frank
Frank
My LinkedIn profile
Additional OpenOffice import related resources
Just in case someone wants to go in this direction there are some related posts:
POOOO: the Pet OpenOffice Odt Obtainer (not maintained any more)
http://drupal.org/node/35036
http://drupal.org/node/35036#comment-810898 suggests using FlexiFilter (http://drupal.org/project/flexifilter) for Drupal import.
hth
Frank
Frank
My LinkedIn profile
The problem with the 2nd
The problem with the 2nd approach is that it involves students learning yet another platform. The reason we'd want to do M$ Word in the first place is to reduce the difficulty in publishing web content for younger students (they only have to learn one program).
We could go into a big discussion about whether the school should be training the kids in a proprietary program in the first place, etc... but the reality remains 99% of students will have used M$ Word and less than 1% will use Open Office.
That aside, as a separate non-K-12 education project, an Open Office import project is a great idea.
Unfortunately have to
Unfortunately have to agree...
I'm trying to tackle this because Word is the defacto standard when it comes to document creation, especially when it comes to older people, younger people, and the majority of the population. Same goes for powerpoint, it has the brand recognition since almost everyone's "grown up" on the Office suite of products. I could definitely see using open office as you describe but unfortunately I'm not the target market for this endevour. Even if this becomes a "save as html" import from word docs I'll be happy. The unfortunate truth remains, it's still (and will be for a long time) easier to develop content in Word and then import it over to the web and I don't see that changing until Firefox or anyone else comes up with a tinymce / fckeditor plugin that sits in the browser instead of on page load. Even then, it would have to be packaged with the project or the majority of people who we're targetting won't be reached. I'm excited to see the Import API when it's announced at Drupalcon DC. Maybe this will remove the need for me to do this but I doubt it :).
"Plaguing the world with Drupal; One Plone, Moodle, Wordpress, Joomla user at a time since 2005." ~ btopro
http://elearning.psu.edu/
http://elearning.psu.edu/projects/
http://elearning.psu.edu/drupalineducation/
Ex Uno Plures
http://elmsln.org/
http://btopro.com/
http://drupal.psu.edu/
Moving the discussion to the project issue queue
I see your point and I am willing to help if I can. But I think we should continue the discussion in the proper place, that is the project's issue queue (http://drupal.org/project/issues/word_import).
Regards,
Frank
Frank
My LinkedIn profile