Re: [Tracker] Development version and document formats

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Edward Duffy wrote:
> On 11/10/06, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote:
> >   M (can someone create a filter for this please - it might be possible
> > on the command line with abiword) AbiWord15 (abw)
>
> The command line options only allow for creating files where the
> original file is located (no pipes, no named locations, as far as I
> can tell).

thats okay - take a look at the msword filter. Due to a bug in WvText 
which causes the doc file to be touched and therefore loops forever in 
tracker, we copy the doc file to /tmp and extract the text there

(note Beagle requires a patched version of wvText to avoid looping but 
we dont cause we are smarter!)

> Here's a filter that uses xsltproc..this would've been easier if
> there was an xmlless.
>
> Does xsltproc come standard on most distros?

probably - we should use this for more general xml filtering like a 
text/xml filter?


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