[daisy] Starter question: move existing content into Daisy?

[Paul Focke]

Hi Geert

I know of cases where a bunch of legacy html has been dumped into Daisy.
However there is no application that reads in a bunch of html files and
imports them. Usually this is done by writing a little java code or
javascript. A good place to start might be to have a look in the daisy
source code. There is an application there that was used to import stuff
from jspwiki, that might be a good starting point for your case. It can
be found in <daisy_src>/applications/jspwiki_import

Things you might want to look out for : 
- Daisy is a bit picky when it comes the html she accepts. That's why
there is a html cleaner component that cleans up the html.
- If you use images you should give that some thought too. These can
also be stored in daisy as documents and be referenced to from the html
document.
- Links between documents will have to be rewritten. 
- It's always a good idea to keep a reference to the old URLs of your
documents. A good place to store these in a daisy document is in a
custom-field (look in the misc tab of the editor).

hth

Paul

On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 15:16 +0200, COELMONT, Geert wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am new to Daisy. I have installed and launched it without problems,
> and done some basic experimenting with new documents etc. All works
> nicely.
> 
> However, the main reason for using Daisy was for us to better manage a
> pile of existing, hand-written HTML documents. 
> They are about 300 HTML files, with frequent links referring from one
> to the other, and some basic markup. 
> How do I get these into the Daisy repository?
> 
> I found the export/import utility, but this is only suited for
> daisy-to-daisy importing. 
> As far as I can see, no importing mechanism exists that allows a set
> of simple, plain HTML files to be imported quickly into Daisy,
> rewriting hyperlinks where appropriate.  This would involve creating
> an empty document with corresponding document-ID for each of the
> files, importing the existing file into this new document, and
> rewriting all the links inside it to new urls, to reflect the new
> document-ID of the linked documents.
> 
> Does anyone know whether such a feature exists somewhere? 
> Probably nothing rocket science, but before I re-invent the wheel etc
> etc... 
> If nothing exists, any ideas on how to best handle this are
> appreciated!
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Geert
> 
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