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eZ publish Enterprise Component: Document, Requirements
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:Author: Kirill Subbotin
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:Revision: $Revision: $
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:Date: $Date: $
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Introduction
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Description
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The purpose of the Document component is to provide an easy and universal way to
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deal with structured text documents of any format.
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Current implementation
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In eZ publish 3 there is a datatype 'ezxmltext' that stores structured text in
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it's own internal XML format, but this format has some disadvantages. The main
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weak point is that it's scheme is very different from XHTML, which makes
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it hard to present it in WYSIWYG editors and has a negative impact on the
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performance. The main things are:
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- All content is wrapped in paragraphs, even "block" elements like tables,
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which is not allowed in XHTML.
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- Using sections instead of plain headers like in XHTML 1.*.
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- Using "line" tags with line's content instead of single "br".
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- "Custom" element's placement in the schema depends on it's attribute, which is
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not compatible with XML schema definitions.
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This datatype can take input in some formats including 'simplified XML' and basic
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HTML (for OE) and produces output in HTML and PDF using eZ publish's templates.
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Also there is an ODF extension for eZ publish that can convert simple documents
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in Oasis Open Document format to the internal format of 'ezxmltext' datatype and
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back. It uses the custom code plus OpenOffice.org in daemon mode for conversion.
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Requirements
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The main task of the component is to take an input in one of the supported
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formats and convert it to another. There should be always a way to convert
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one format to another, it could be a direct conversion, or chain conversion,
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that involves one or more intermediate formats.
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There should be one special format that is recommended to use as intermediate
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format in complex conversions, unless there are reasons to peek another. This
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format is called "internal format".
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Additionally the next features should be implemented:
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* Validating the input document according to the given schema
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* Auto-fix (tidy) incorrect input.
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* Generate/edit a document in internal format using PHP API.
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Main formats the component deal with include:
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* Simple text markup formats (ReST, BBcode, WikiText, 'simplified XML')
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* XML-based formats (XHTML, DocBook, eZ publish 4 XML text)
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* Complex formats that include styles and additional info (doc, odt, pdf)
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The purpose of the component is to present document's structured content only,
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so all styling information that comes from the input will be ignored. But if
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some semantics is coded with styles in the input document, it should be
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possible to convert it properly.
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Design goals
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The component should be able to:
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* Take an input and present it as a DOM tree internally.
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* Validate it by the schema of it's format and report about errors or tidy
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document automatically.
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* Transform to another formats using one of the available methods.
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* Provide an interface to create/edit a document in the internal format.
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Internal format should have a schema that is rich enough to present any document.
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There should always be a away to convert from any of the supported formats to
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the internal format. This rule guarantees that there is always a way between
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any formats.
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XML transformations can be done with XSL templates. Thus XSL extension for
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PHP 5 is required for this component.
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Design document should contain a list of formats we are willing to support in
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the first release and the ways they can be processed.
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Formats
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The good candidate for the inner document format is DocBook (http://docbook.org/)
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This is open format that has a lot of features while not being too complex.
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Also there are a lot of already existing tools that support this format, so
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we can use some of them if it is allowed by the license.
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In the first release we will most likely support a subset of this format, so it
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probably has a sense to use an already existing subset called Simplified DocBook
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(http://docbook.org/schemas/simplified).
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Other document formats that will defenitely supported in some way:
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- ReST
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- Wikitext
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- HTML
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- XHTML
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- OpenDocument
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- PDF
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- eZ publish 4 XML text
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- eZ publish 4 simplified XML text
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The attached diagram (document-formats.svg) shows which formats will be
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supported in the first release of the component and possible directions of
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transforming from one format to anthoer.
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