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

Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com
Thu Jul 14 13:42:56 PDT 2011


Exactly!

It's another target for single sourcing out of Frame.
And once all the info is in the CMS or the database... you're free to
set up the web site / knowledge base / online doc site as you want....

Art

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On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:57 PM, John Sgammato <jsgammato at imprivata.com> wrote:
> That sort of tool would be pretty exciting for me, but I would need a Drupal version, not a WordPress version.
> Of course, if ... Mif2Go could save my 300pp FM10 book as 300 individual HTML procedures and somehow push them into a MySQL database, then I would have my grail - all my official released procedures could get pumped into a Drupal-powered knowledgebase owned by our Support team!
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Jeremy, the tool I'm playing with converts a directory of RTF files into clean HTML, but then performs a second step of parsing each file into a format that can be pulled into a SQL database -- hence the CSV format for the lowest common denominator DB format...
>
> Yes, you can cut and paste HTML into Wordpress pretty easily. One file at a time. You have several hundred or thousand to do, it could be a little wearing...
>
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> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Jeremy H. Griffith <jeremy at omsys.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:23:18 -0400, Art Campbell <art.campbell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>
>> That doesn't make sense to me.  Why have Mif2Go make RTF, with very
>> different requirements than HTML, and then use something else to make
>> the clean HTML/XHTML you can have Mif2Go make in the first place?
>>
>> I hope the intermediate step isn't using Word, which produces horrible
>> HTML.  But Word is what our RTF is tuned for...
>>
>>>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.
>>
>> WordPress doesn't import HTML?  CSV is a very old and limited
>> format...  Does WordPress use it internally, or does it use its own
>> XML format, as I'd expect?
>>
>> -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
>>  <jeremy at omsys.com>  http://www.omsys.com/
>>
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