Posted by batigolix on July 10, 2008 at 12:34pm
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| Project: | Book Import/Export |
| Version: | 5.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Miscellaneous |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
Issue Summary
what is the current status of this project?
Comments
#1
yes, I'm confused on the status also. Is this entry a proposal for a module?
#2
I am working with several FOSS Communities who are interested in DocBook for their documentation efforts and Drupal for their community pulmbing.
As these continue to converge, the need to take DocBooks on roundtrips through Drupal becomes more and more interesting to me. I'm bumping the question of the status of the project.
Here is my current thinking on why Book Import/Export w/ Docbook module makes sense to me:
I do not think that an XSL transform directly to Drupal makes sense. There should be an XSLT step that has special knowledge of Drupal structure. The resulting output would then be fed to a Drupal module that creates the internal structures Drupal expects (book nodes?). I think the general notion will operate similarly to Steve Ball's roundtrip which takes attempts to sync MS Word and DocBook. The advantage with Drupal is we have a greater level of control and might be able to use a wider subset of the DocBook spec than roundtrip is able to.
#3
I have a use for this module, or a modification of it. The project I am working on is committed to Drupal 6, and this module appears to be only Drupal 5. It also looks like only the export stuff is written, not the import.
I am considering devoting time to getting this working for myself, but my project also has other specialized needs, I could also write a custom module to do everything.
One of the features I would probably add is texinfo format export and import. Many software projects use this as the documentation format, so this might be useful to others as well.
Is anyone currently working on this module ?
#4
Hi,
I'm currently looking for a Drupal 6 import solution for a ton of books (It looks like book import / export is written in Drupal 5)!
I noticed the same thing about the missing import.
I was looking at bookimport - it has some interesting code but I don't think it handles he 4 tables involved: book, node, node_revisions and menu_links.
Any advise ? I am a programmer.
#5
After a rather too long hiatus, I'm working on this module again.
I will be porting to D6 and D6 next, and implementing import functionality.
Additional export/import formats will be considered - texinfo sounds like an interesting possibility.
#6
+1 the idea of this module is great and it would be very useful to me.