Aim:
To build and office Add-In using VSTO 2005SE to build a weekly magazine from HTML articles and to transform daily articles from word into html for posting on the web-site.
Time Frame:
6 Months, with university emending I would expect at least to the mid-year before any significant gain are produced.
Project Description:
The project is broken into two main groups, the collection of classes that will transform HTML into the template for the Weekly Magazine. The second group of classes that will turn the daily articles in word into html for posting.
Aims for the First Group
- Read the Html from a supplied URI and copy on the reverent html for the story.
- Interfaces to gather the URI and any images for the Article.
- Apply select styles from the template to the transformed text.
- Either retrieve the html pages or dynamically accept a URI list and dynamically construct a script to retrieve them.
- Allow Folder to be browsed for images.
- Include bold HTML as bold Text as well as other generic formatting tags.
- Split the Articles into two or more groups.
Aims for the Second Group
- Create and XML Schema for a template
- Design output the will allow easy access to the headline,images and the article
- Wont automate the upload process, no database access and the text-pad used with the CMS is a java-applet.
Research:
- VB.net and office HTML processing methods and external libraries.
- Can VB accept a web-pages source into the text reader without first saving the page. If not can a scripting language be used to download the html pages from a dynamically constructed list of URI's.
- Are there Similar Products available and are there any bits of information that could be useful for this project.
- Word Markup and Object model.