From: Alan Horkan (horkana@maths.tcd.ie)
Date: Mon Jun 23 2003 - 15:18:35 EDT
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Francis James Franklin wrote:
> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 20:07:02 +0100
> From: Francis James Franklin <f.j.franklin@sheffield.ac.uk>
> To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: POW - round trip XHTML. Minimum Gnome Office requirement.
>
> I'd like to add that list export is still kinda sucky (Bugs 1956 &
> 3375) - a 3rd rewrite has been on my TODO list for quite some time.
>
> There's a meta bug (Bug 4415) which covers [X]HTML import/export issues.
>
> Other interesting HTML-related bugs: 3472, 3747, 4213, 4355, 4525, 4775.
>
> All of this is a little much for a single POW, but I think Martin's
> emphasis is on round-trip XHTML table import/export.
>
> Question: Are custom clip-board types supported? XHTML is basically a
> document structure and the copy&paste of a single table is encumbered
> by the document superstructure, i.e.:
>
> <?xml version="1.0">
> <!DOCTYPE html "... >
> <html xmlns="... >
> <head>
> <title>...</title>
> <etc. />
> </head>
> <body>
> <!-- and finally --><table>
> ...
> </table>
> </body>
> </head>
>
> and I'm often tempted just to prune the peripheral elements, i.e.:
>
> <?xml version="1.0">
> <!DOCTYPE table "... >
> <table xmlns="... >
> ...
> </table>
>
> - but it maybe it's not worth the effort?
>
> After all, what does gnumeric do when faced when a whole document? Or
> does it assume that the document contains a single table?
each line should get placed on a new row in the first cell
only when Gnumeric encounters a Table should it put items in other rows.
you would probably also want to have the option to cut and paste
tab delimitered text, as it is what I would expect Gnumeric to accept.
- Alan
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