[daisy] Importing existing static HTML sites into daisy

[Marc Portier]

Hoping I'm not too late with one additional warning:

* please be aware of possible encoding issues (encountered at least one 
case where that needed cumbersome fixing after the import was done)

regards, and a happy new year too!

-marc=

Bruno Dumon wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 09:22 +0100, Paul Focke wrote:
>> Happy New Year
>>
>> If I could give you one word of advice, sunscreen would be it. Well not
>> really sunscreen but I'd remember to use the htmlcleaner on the html
>> before dumping it in daisy. Have the cleaner go over all the html files
>> first on a test run and have it report any errors since you can
>> sometimes find some really weird html out there.
>> If you feel comfortable doing this in javascript it is quite easy. I
>> remember doing something vaguely similar for a project we worked on
>> here. But it didn't rewrite links (<a href=""> & <img src="">) like you
>> would need to (I'm assuming that there might be links between the
>> pages). I guess that might be a tricky part of the exercise.
>>
> 
> Not so tricky, but a bit of extra work. It requires to do the work in
> two steps: first import all the documents into Daisy, and remember for
> each path the assigned document ID. In a second step, translate the
> links in the documents using this information. And to make it complete,
> report broken links.
> 
> Seems like there's often this question about an import tool. Maybe a
> nice project for someone?
> 
> BTW, the code Helma refers to is in applications/jspwiki_import. It's
> quite specific to a particular JSP wiki installation though.
>