Subject: Re: Using AbiWord for HTML
From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 02:53:21 CST
[copying to abi-dev]
> > AbiWord cannot open C:\Temp\junk.htm. It appears to be a bogus or invalid
> > document.
>
> I have the impression that Abiword is very intolerant about anything it
> tries to read. This is where I think the conception of file import is
> wrong; instead of giving up, Abiword should do the best out of the worst
> job.
Sounds like a good idea. If I understand correctly, currently importers
return UT_OK for success, anything else being failure, why not add a
third, "fuzzy" option (e.g., UT_IE_INTERRUPTED)? - In which case, the
"bogus or invalid document" dialog is still displayed but a document
exists and is processed normally.
Or maybe this should be up to individual importers and AbiWord doesn't
care? For example, the (X)HTML importer could append
<p><b>Transfer Interrupted!</b></p>
to what has been read successfully, and return UT_OK - AbiWord is none the
wiser.
On quick note on HTML import: AbiWord's XHTML importer needs the input to
be valid XML and most HTML documents in the wild fail this requirement
very quickly...
Regards, Frank
Francis James Franklin
F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk
It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and
wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again.
That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong.
--- Philip Roth
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