Re: Gnumeric export format xhtml

[Daniel Carrera <dcarrera math toronto edu>]

This week I'm moving to the USA, so pretty soon I'll disappear for a
while.  Nonetheless, I'd still like to give it a shot.

How can I test my changes? (I'm using the latest development version BTW).

Say I update html.h, html.c and html_read.c.  How can I test what I've
done (other than making sure it compiles)?

I am currently going for XHTML 1.0 transitional because it's easier.

Daniel.

On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Andreas J Guelzow wrote:

> Just some comments:
>
>   Changing the html exporter to export xhtml is virtually trivial and
> definitely does not require any significant amount of coding.
> Essentially we need to:
>
> 1) change all the tags to lowercase (they are currently all upper case)
> 2) make sure we quote all attributes (I believe that is only necessary
> for rowspan and colspan.)
> 3) change <p> to <p></p> between tables
>
> and
>
> 4) depending on whether we create html or xhtml include the correct
> header info
>
>
> Since items 1 to 3 are valid for html, the main code can do double duty.
>
> Andreas
>
>
> Jody Goldberg wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 09:08:22PM +0200, Renaud Saliou wrote:
> >
> > > I start reading content of directory gnumeric/plugins/html from cvs. I
> > > will try to send a patch. Like i am a little busy, it will take me time
> > > and like i am a new developer, it will be good that someone verify that
> > > my code respects philosophy of the Gnumeric project. I hope i wouldn't
> > > have problems to compile.
> >
> > Another developer has also volunteered to take a look at this,
> > Daniel you may want to contact Renaud to avoid replication.  On the
> > export side you'll want to look at html.c, on import html-read.c.
> > We would only be interested in patches to the 1.1.x version when
> > reading.  It was rewritten to use libxml2's html parser.  Converting
> > to xhtml would almost certainly be trivial.
> >
> > Export will take slightly more work.  Ideally html and xhtml export
> > could share code, but a fork would be reasonable if required.  The
> > amount of code in question is small.
> >
> > Andreas is the one to contact about both segments, he has done all
> > of the recent work.