Posted by victorkane on March 28, 2007 at 4:31pm
Help!
As someone said, you can't stop people from using Quark.
Anyone have any pointers of importing content into Quark 6 and getting it out again (could be XML, HTML, etc.) in any kind of script driven way?
Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Victor Kane
http://awebfactory.com.ar
Comments
BoXTool
Victor, the commercial side of Morris DigitalWorks has been selling a tool for several years that extracts Quark data as XML. It's not an entirely automated process; you have to identify components on your page that belong together (click-click-click) in order to produce the XML.
It's called BoXTool. We use it at some of our smaller papers.
I have not used it, but I believe it expects you to have some discipline in your use of Quark styles, which are mapped to XML entities. Karen Taylor (karen.taylor@morris.com) can provide info. We have not built a Drupal data loader for it.
I think there are a couple of other Quark-to-XML extractors out there. I don't know anything about getting data into Quark.
Re:Quark-XML
I've not tried this, so forgive my ignorance, but doesn't the import/export API allow for XML importation of nodes? It's in beta, but it's at least a starting point.
there's also the Import HTML module, in which case, you could just strip out the extra HTML.
Data into Quark
I haven't worked with Quark 6 at all, but all versions of Quark can import data in the form of Xpress Tags (simple text-tagging) and I believe that the later ones support XML.