FWN on Fedora Insight: roll up meeting

[Pascal Calarco]

On 30/09/09 11:57 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 11:26 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 08:24:47AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 22:10 -0400, Pascal Calarco wrote:
>>>
>>>> 1) Need for an HTML-aware WYSIWYG editor within Fedora Insight; wiki
>>>> markup won't work on Fedora Insight, and so we need to add references in
>>>> news articles as HTML<a href="..."></a>   for example.  Dale has also
>>>> noted[2] that it would be really useful to be able to easily reference
>>>> mediawiki objects like User, Package, etc.  We'll have to see how we can
>>>> tailor the WYSIWYG editor with shortcuts to these, if at all.
>>>
>>> How is this going to work for the plain text version of the newsletter?
>>> If you write a text using in-line hyperlinks it's generally very hard to
>>> automatically generate a usable plain text version in all cases.
>>
>> Couldn't you just process that with links or w3m?
>
> The problem's in the style. At present, as we know the links will be
> presented as references after the main text body in both the HTML and
> text-only versions, we write the text to reflect this. The style you
> would use when writing text with an in-line link is, in some cases,
> different.

Could we perhaps take the RSS output and post-process this to derive a 
text version using XSLT?

   - pascal