Anyone else looking at Frame >> WordPress (as a CMS)

[Art Campbell]

Just as an update -- this certainly seems to be possible; I'm doing
some testing.

The workflow seems to be (unstructured):

1. From Frame, SaveAs (I'm using MIF2Go) as RTF.
2. Batch-convert the RTF to clean HTML or XHTML.
3. Save/export into a comma-separated value (CSV) file.
4. Import the CSV into WordPress, assigning tags, categories, post
types and other bits and pieces on import.

It may be possible to streamline this if you can twiddle MIF2Go or a
script to do a post-processing step and generate a CSV, but I don't
know if that's possible. Yet.

And I suspect it'd be pretty easy to go from DITA or another structure
to CSV, but I haven't played with that at all.

Art Campbell
               art.campbell at gmail.com
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On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Scott Prentice <sp10 at leximation.com> wrote:
> I know some people that are going from DITA into WP (and Drupal). Here's a
> link to a recent Silicon Valley DITA Interest Group meeting where they
> presented their work ..
>
>   http://svdig.ditamap.com/posts/267
>
> They author documentation in DITA (potentially FM-authored) and publish into
> Wordpress. The resulting pages can be commented and searched in the WP
> environment. Future updates to the documentation and be uploaded into WP,
> replacing the previous versions, but maintaining the associated comments.
>
> Using WP as the CMS host implies (to me) that you're trying to round trip
> (store data in WP, download/checkout to FM for authoring, then upload back
> to WP) .. which in theory could work if HTML is your source format. You'd
> just need the code bits to do the "checkin" and "checkout" .. but it
> certainly could work.
>
> The WP->DITA->FM path that I've explored basically just requires a fairly
> simple PHP script that reads the WP database directly and writes out a file
> that is the entire database dump, but wraps up each "page" in DITA topics
> with titles and other markup properly DITA-ified. The resulting single DITA
> file can be opened in Frame which applies all of the proper formatting, then
> saved directly to a PDF.
>
> In theory something similar could be used to round-trip content, but since
> the standard internal markup in WP is HTML, you'd have to be sure to author
> the DITA content using a very limited set of the specification. The nice
> thing about using DITA as the intermediate markup is that you have lots of
> tools for authoring and publishing available.
>
> Cheers,
>
> ...scott
>
>
>
> Art Campbell wrote:
>>
>> I've been thinking about going the other way, Scott, using FM to
>> single-source HTML into WordPress containers of different types. I've
>> done several sites that seem to be morphing their way to a
>> documentation model, and I think WP would be a pretty strong CMS host.
>>
>> How have you been structuring the DITA on the WP side? Plug-ins, or
>> your own stuff, or something else?
>>
>> Art
>>
>> Art Campbell
>>               art.campbell at gmail.com
>>  "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52
>> Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
>>                                                      No disclaimers apply.
>>                                                               DoD 358
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Scott Prentice <sp10 at leximation.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi Art...
>>>
>>> I've been messing around with exporting DITA from Wordpress, then opening
>>> that in FrameMaker for PDF publishing. Works pretty nice.
>>>
>>> ...scott
>>>
>>>
>>> Art Campbell wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Just checking in... I've been using and pushing Wordpress as a CMS for
>>>> several web sites lately and have been very pleased with the results.
>>>> I'm at the point of seeing if anyone else is working on something
>>>> similar -- I'm curious if anyone else is playing with a Frame >
>>>> WordPress extraction, conversion, or what-have-you.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Art
>>>>
>>>> Art Campbell
>>>>              art.campbell at gmail.com
>>>>  "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52
>>>> Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
>>>>                                                     No disclaimers
>>>> apply.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>