Re: What can I parse abiword with?

On 2/1/07, Lars Eighner <abbynormal@larseighner.com> wrote:
>
> Anyone interested in following my progress on this project, my "conjured
> documentation" of AbiWord, or development of a usable DTD can follow any or
> all of that at <http://larseighner.com/AbbyWriter/> (unless I get a real
> typewriter first, in which case I will be doing real work).
>
>
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Dominic Lachowicz wrote:
>
> > I don't know if this addresses your question or not, but our DTD is
> > hopelessly out of date, and trying to validate against it is probably a lost
> > cause. However, it is valid XML and any conforming XML parser should be able
> > to parse the ABW documents.
> >
> > There's no API for generating documents to speak of. The best advice I can
> > give you at the moment is:
> >
> > 1) Your documents seem simple enough. Make 1 or 2 sample documents using
> > AbiWord, and then craft your program to generate those sorts of documents
> > using print() or some XML building API.
> > 2) If your documents really are plaintext or something similar (maybe
> > HTML?), you can use AbiWord to convert that to whatever format you desire.
> > If you use AbiWord 2.5, you don't even need the input or output document to
> > hit the disk.
> >
> > Good luck,
> > Dom

Another possibility might be using the crossmark [1] format (a
wiki-esque text format). Abiword support for it is in the works.

[1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Crossmark

Best,
Rob
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Received on Thu Feb 1 13:15:38 2007