Web application-AbiWord based

Hi AbiWord community!
  Thank you for that awesome program!

What I want to do:
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Develop a simple web document converter (from doc to html) that works on a shared host.

Different ways to implement it:
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1) use a ctypes in Python to use a shared library like libabiword or libwv
 (can I have a local copy of them so they do not need to be installed in
 shared host server?)
2) upload a standalone copy of AbiWord/wvWare using php_exec() or a
similar Python/Perl command (is that possible? none-linux standard
libraries has to be integrated into AbiWord at compile time... is that
true?)
3) call AbiWord/wvWare using php_exec() or a similar Python/Perl command (is not applicable in a shared host: they won't install the software on the server, some hosts do also prevent using php_exec())

  I would prefer to use the first option, but I'm not sure if libabiword contains any none-GTK functions. I'm not either sure what functions both libabiword and libwv do provide (I did not find any documentation about it)

Please give me tips how to start and which functions are usable. Also let me know if there is a better way to do it.

PS. I saw that many people wants this functionality on their shared hosts; and if I success in doing it I will make it available for all them!

Thank you in advance
Oussama C.
                                               
Received on Tue Jul 26 10:47:18 2011