Confluence 4 export: the one feature that would justify my upgrading from FM10

[Jeremy H. Griffith]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:28:01 -0800, Robert Lauriston 
<robert at lauriston.com> wrote:

>Confluence has two or three APIs that could be used to write an import
>tool, as well as the plugin SDK. There's also an unsupported
>command-line interface, which in theory should be able to do a batch
>import, but I couldn't get it to work, and did I mention it's
>unsupported?
>
>https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Confluence+Command+Line+Interface

Sounds like a good Open Source project for a 
Confluence user/developer.  It doesn't make 
sense to add it to Mif2Go except as a separate
program anyway, like the other many free utilities
that come with it.  And frankly, it doesn't make
sense for us to spend that much engineering time 
to benefit only the five Mif2Go users who care 
about Confluence at all...  ;-)

Of course, if they don't support their own CLI,
what are the odds the APIs work?  Not good, I'd 
say, which may be why nobody has done a batch
import utility yet.

>Confluence 4 can export a space to several formats, but not to the
>documented XHTML storage format.

Does Frame import any of them itself?  You'd lose
a lot, and have to completely redo the markup;
that's why we advise adding such content by hand
(copy/paste as PLAIN TEXT only) to the existing 
Frame files.  It saves a lot of time over a complete 
redo of formats, markers, and conditions.  You'd
think re-import would save time, but you'd be 
very wrong.  ;-)

Thanks again for helping us to get the XHTML format
right; that was also a lot of engineering, and it
would have been much more without your critical 
eye on the testing.

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
  <jeremy at omsys.com>    http://mif2go.com/