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George.Harrison at gov

May 22, 2009, 9:43 AM

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Convert html to story

Does anyone know of a script or template that will construct a story
given a story element and a block of html text?

phillip at communitybandwidth

May 22, 2009, 9:54 AM

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Re: Convert html to story [In reply to]

On 22-May-09, at 1:43 PM, Harrison, George (STEM) wrote:

> Does anyone know of a script or template that will construct a story
> given a story element and a block of html text?

Use case?

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chris.schults at pccsea

May 22, 2009, 10:02 AM

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RE: Convert html to story [In reply to]

> Does anyone know of a script or template that will construct a story
> given a story element and a block of html text?

George,

FYI: When migrating the PCC website to Bricolage, I wrote a bunch of PHP
scripts that converted flat HTML files to Bricolage XML that I then
imported using bric_soap. I created a separate script for each story
type as each had its own collection of elements.

I used PHP Simple HTML Dom Parser
<http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/>, PHP Tidy
<http://www.php.net/tidy> and a bunch of custom search and replaces.

My method was to:

1) Scan a directory for target files (fortunately a consistent file
naming convention was used that made mapping files to story types easy)
2) For each file, perform some cleanup by either removing code or
replacing tags
3) Use Tidy to perform further cleanup
4) Use PHP Simple HTML Dom Parser to iterate through all the tags and
convert to Bricolage XML
5) Import using bric_soap

This, of course, was all very specific to PCC.

Chris

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George.Harrison at gov

May 22, 2009, 10:09 AM

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RE: Convert html to story [In reply to]

On May 22, 2009 11:54 AM: Phillip Smith wrote

> On 22-May-09, at 1:43 PM, Harrison, George (STEM) wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know of a script or template that will construct a story
>> given a story element and a block of html text?
>
>
>
> Use case?

OOH, I hate that question, forces me to think about what I'm doing.

How about, migrate an existing html page (valid html (4.01 Transitional
or xhtml 1.0 Transitional) from hand maintained to bricolage maintained.
All presentation would already controlled by stylesheets. Body only
would be converted, head html would be controlled by templates.

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