Questions about a wiki

[Chris Despopoulos]

I'm kind of playing around with WIKIs at the moment.  I'm most interested in DokuWiki because it's a file-based system rather than using MySql.  DokuWiki has plugins for export to different formats (OpenOffice, LaTex, and XHTML, for example).  I'm not aware of import plugins yet.  

I think the obvious problems are with graphics (must be converted to a light-weight bitmap) and xrefs.  Right now I'm manually converting Word files into the Wiki, just to see what issues arise.  I suppose a Maker plug-in could be made that creates a DokuWiki tree out of a book, breaking the files into topics.  I may start to think about that -- is there a bonafide interest?  (Shoot, this could result in DokuWiki as an intermediate format for Maker -> Word conversions!)  I guess the reverse would not be too hard to implement...  DokuWiki -> Maker, especially since DokuWiki seems to have a plug-in that is sort of like making a book in DITA.

A conversion from Word to DokuWiki seems more difficult to me, because I don't believe VBA exposes a Word document as well as the FDK exposes Maker docs.  For example, how do you find bold text within a pgf?  The FDK splits text into chunks along such boundaries, but I'm not aware of anything similar in Word VBA.  So I guess you would have to do transforms on RTF.  I'm not there, yet...  Anybody have any suggestions?  

cud