Since dokuwiki can be used for documenting projects, it would be useful to be able to export its contents to another format, like docbook 1), or some bureautic format 2).
I've been using a wiki for a school project, where we had to deliver some reports. We made them off-wiki and that impaired the usefulness of the wiki. Copy and paste the text was not useful.
Oh, sorry - I've just discovered the print CSS! Docbook would be good, too, but this is fine.
What is “the print CSS”? I noticed it in the DokuWiki feature comparison chart, but can't find more info. I assume it is a way of controlling DokuWiki's printable output by using a style sheet somewhere? — Douglas Beagley 2005-09-29 11:14
The CSS standard provides a mechanism to apply different stylesheets to different output media. Examples for media types are screen, print, handheld, and aural (for programs that “read” the webpage to you). The DokuWiki standard template provides a stylesheet namedprint.css, that is only applied when you print a page (or use the print preview function of your browser). I hides all the button bars and formats the page in a simple, printable style. It could be prettier, though. Any volunteers? — ChristopherArndt 2005-09-29 19:47
Print CSS is good for some things, but for our work we still need some form of export functionality. DokuWiki is excellent for collaborative document writing and information sharing between the design team, but we eventually need to coalesce the information into an actual document that can be shipped to a customer.
For our needs, OpenOffice export would be ideal; DocBook would also be good. During export would be nice to be able to map heading levels in the document to resulting heading levels (for example, I'd like to map each page to a level 1 heading, and have headings in the page be level 2 or more).
Please see my wiki trails proposal — Primoz Verdnik 2006-10-13 08:13
I have been thinking about exporting to <latex>latex</latex>. Anyone else interested in this? — Chris Lee 2005-04-09 04:24Yes, very much, please share your experience with this! m.e., 2005-04-09Then, let's make some pages for each export type and have people contribute how they want it done. — Chris Lee 2005-04-09 18:05
Just a quick note for everyone who wants to write an export to some format. Do not waste your time by basing your work on the current release's parser. Instead use a development version and write a renderer for the new parser. — Andreas Gohr 2005-04-10 11:37
Can you put together a mini-how-to for doing this (all the steps..)? I really want to make a renderer for the AurigaDoc XML format.. Auriga can then convert to a ton of formats (pdf, HTML one-page, multi-page, DHTML menu with multiple pages, PS, CHM!, etc.) – see Exporting AurigaDoc. — Adrian Tanase 2005-04-20