Nested list option for HTML export

watershed · watershed

Now I've got HTML export working again with OmniOutliner, the thought occurs that it would be great to have an option for nested list XHTML output.

Obviously this would only be appropriate for a single column outline but then that's generally what I'm generating with OmniOutliner anyway.

whpalmer4 · whpalmer4

Use Help->Send Feedback to get your feature request logged where it will do some good.

watershed · watershed

Thanks, will do.

**Ken Case** · Ken Case

Have you tried the "Simple HTML" export option in OmniOutliner Pro? Does that do what you're looking for?

watershed · watershed

If by "Simple HTML" you mean this...

...then no, that's not what I'm after.

Although simple HTML export only works in the 3.9.3 beta, when it does, the output is still a whole lot of tables and massive use of classes and inline CSS.

The HTML output (dynamic and simple) is great in that it does work, but it's not very lean!

What I'd like to see is something much more minimal (for single column outlines) for people who know HTML, CSS and DOM scripting to do something with. For example,

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  <title>Topic title</title>
</head>
<body>
  <h1>Topic title</h1>

  <ul id="outline">
    <li><strong>Level 1 item</strong>
      <ul>
        <li>Level 2 item</li>
        <li><em>Level 2 item</em>
          <ol>
            <li>Level 3 item</li>
            <li>Level 3 item</li>
          </ol>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </li>
    <li><strong>Level 1 item</strong></li>
  </ul>
</body>
</html>

The assumption above is that OO numbered lists are converted to ordered lists whilst all others are converted to unordered lists; and that bold text is converted to <strong> and italic text is converted to <em>.

OmniOutliner is such a fantastic tool for creating nested outlines it seems a shame that one can't use it to generate clean, semantic XHTML.

Other thoughts include:

Instead of converting use of bold text in OO to <strong>, an option to convert it to HTML headings according to level: so level 1 bold becomes <h2>, level 2 bold becomes <h3>, etc
Option to embed a call to jQuery Google code in the head and leverage that library's toggle effect.

Hope this makes sense.

**DerekM** · DerekM

Try the unordered list export included here http://www.omnigroup.com/ftp/pub/sof...ortsPlugin.zip

It probably doesn't do everything you want so please email support feedback on what specific improvements you'd like to see.

watershed · watershed

Aha, thanks, I'd missed the Extras for OO. Will take a look.

watershed · watershed

Just had a look. That's a great asset, thanks.

Maybe you could consider things like <ol> and heading sensitivity for a future release?

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