Extension:RoboHelp2Wiki

This extension converts Macromedia RoboHelp Topics to MediaWiki pages. For this release, most of the structural and object elements are converted to proper wiki counterparts. Stylesheets and javascripts are mostly discarded. Display related markups, such as font size, colors, appearances, are not retained in most cases.

Requirements

 * RoboHelp X5.0.2
 * Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 or later
 * Login to a MediaWiki Wiki 1.7 or 1.8

Step 1 RoboHelp

 * From within RoboHelp, move all image files in RoboHelp to a root directory called images
 * Generate a XML Output file from the Single Source Layouts. To do that, you have to choose the option    Export Project to XHTML
 * Note the name of the XML Project.



Step 2 RoboHelp2Wiki
for convenience. where "xml" uploads the Robohelp exported xml data and "image" uploads the images.
 * Install JRE 5.0 or later if not done.
 * The software is written in Java and requires JRE 5 or later. It requires several Apache classes, which are included
 * Unzip RoboHelp2Wiki zip file to a working directory,
 * Modify config/config.properties file to proper settings (See sample below)
 * Upload XML Output to wiki server using java -jar RoboHelp2Wiki.jar  

Step 3 Wiki

 * Look for new file called Robo2Wiki Conversion Notes MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS providing the log of pages uploaded and the RoboHelp Glossary.
 * Copy Glossary to its own page, if desired.

Sample Config File
##RoboHelp File Information based on Standard RoboHelp Directory Structure RoboXMLExportDir=C:\\TestFiles\\!SSL!\\XML_Output RoboXMLProjectFile=TestFiles.XML ## General Config properties. This directory MUST EXIST TempWorkSpaceDir=C:\\wiki\\tmp Newline=\n ##MediaWiki Properties - MUST CHANGE TO YOUR MEDIAWIKI SETTINGS WikiURL=http://www.[yourdomain].com/Wiki/index.php WikiLoginName=w WikiLoginPassword=w ##MediaWiki Properties for Version 1.7 and Version 1.8 WikiImageUploadURL=?title=Special:Upload WikiLoginFormActionURL=?title=Special:Userlogin&action=submitlogin&type=login&returnto=Main_Page ## number of files to be uploaded. used for testing. ## set to -1 for complete uploads. MaxFileNo=-1 ##Debugging Switch ON/OFF Debugging=OFF

RoboHelp2Wiki is a product of The JK Group, Inc. released under GNU General Public License 2.0.

Requires Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 or later, RoboHelp HTML X5.0.2 Build 801, and MediaWiki Version 1.7 or 1.8.

RoboHelp is a product of Adobe Systems Incorporated.,

Mediawiki is a wiki engine released by Mediawiki.org,

Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 is a product of Sun Microsystems