I've been looking for a migration path to get our existing FrameMaker documents into Confluence 4.0. If I export a space, I can see that a page body looks like this: Paragraph Heading 1 Heading 2 Preformatted Quote Paragraph Character styles: bold italic underlined red strikethrough subscript superscript monospace * bullet list 1 * bullet list 2 * numbered list 1 * numbered list 2 Paragraph ]]> Is there some widget I can use to paste that XHTML and have Confluence parse it? If I use Insert > Wiki Markup, it's pasted as literal text. If I use an HTML Macro, it doesn't get parsed, it stays in HTML.

nav[aria-label="Primary Navigation"] { padding: 0; & ul { list-style: none; width: 100%; display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: start; align-items: start; gap: 30px; padding: 0; & li { margin: 0; } & ul li { list-style: none; } } }

some way to paste HTML in Confluence 4?

Robert Lauriston

I've been looking for a migration path to get our existing FrameMaker documents into Confluence 4.0.

If I export a space, I can see that a page body looks like this:

<property name="body"><![CDATA[<p>Paragraph</p><h1>Heading 1</h1><h2>Heading 2</h2><pre>Preformatted</pre><blockquote><p>Quote</p></blockquote><p>Paragraph</p><p>Character styles: <strong>bold</strong> <em>italic</em> <u>underlined</u> <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0);">red</span> <s>strikethrough</s> <sub>subscript</sub> <sup>superscript</sup> <code>monospace</code></p><ul><li>bullet list 1</li><li>bullet list 2</li></ul><ol><li>numbered list 1</li><li>numbered list 2</li></ol><p>Paragraph</p>]]></property>

Is there some widget I can use to paste that XHTML and have Confluence parse it?

If I use Insert > Wiki Markup, it's pasted as literal text. If I use an HTML Macro, it doesn't get parsed, it stays in HTML.

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Robert Lauriston

Kludge no longer necessary, just install the Confluence Source Editor plugin.

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor/version/6

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Jeremy Largman

Yes. Use the HTML macro. It has to be enabled by an administrator. Notice also some widgets work with the Widget Connector.

Sorry, on reading this again, I didn't see your intial comment:

If I use an HTML Macro, it doesn't get parsed, it stays in HTML.

It works if you cut off the front and the back, as Andrew says:

&lt;h1&gt;Heading 1&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Heading 2&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;pre&gt;Preformatted&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Quote&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Paragraph&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Character styles: &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;italic&lt;/em&gt; &lt;u&gt;underlined&lt;/u&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(255,0,0);"&gt;red&lt;/span&gt; &lt;s&gt;strikethrough&lt;/s&gt; &lt;sub&gt;subscript&lt;/sub&gt; &lt;sup&gt;superscript&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;code&gt;monospace&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;bullet list 1&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;bullet list 2&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;numbered list 1&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;numbered list 2&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;

Andrew Frayling

Hi Robert, at a guess I'd say that the Paragraph... ?

Andrew Frayling

Sorry, must remember to not use the iPad to answer questions on here.

Full answer was that at a guess I'd say that the <![CDATA tag was throwing the HTML Macro as CDATA tells the macro it's character data and shouldn't be parsed. What happens if you remove the opening and closing <![CDATA tags and just try the text from <p>paragraph</p>... onwards in your above example?

Robert Lauriston

It doesn't get parsed, only rendered. When I edit the page, the code is still embedded in the HTML macro. If I could edit the source, I could just delete the macro tags (Confluence is adding the CDATA tags, all I'm pasting is the stuff from <h1> to </ol>):

<ac:macro ac:name="html"><ac:plain-text-body><![CDATA[
<h1>Heading 1</h1>
<h2>Heading 2</h2>
<pre>Preformatted</pre>
<blockquote>
<p>Quote</p></blockquote>
<p>Paragraph</p>
<p>Character styles: <strong>bold</strong> <em>italic</em> <u>underlined</u> <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0);">red</span> <s>strikethrough</s> <sub>subscript</sub> <sup>superscript</sup> <code>monospace</code></p>
<ul>
<li>bullet list 1</li>
<li>bullet list 2</li></ul>
<ol>
<li>numbered list 1</li>
<li>numbered list 2</li></ol>]]></ac:plain-text-body></ac:macro>

Jeremy Largman

Ah, thanks. Now athat you mention rendering as opposed to parsing, it helps.

I think you can use the Remote API (v2) to store pages in xhtml. In fact that might be ideal, since you can upload a lot of them at once, programatically:

https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Confluence+XML-RPC+and+SOAP+APIs

Notice this note:

https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Changes+to+the+remote+API+in+Confluence+4.0

Robert Lauriston

Yeah, I found the Remote API, but that seems more like something to use to build a plugin to do what I need. The stuff I'm migrating needs a lot of cleanup after import, so it's most efficient to cut and paste page by page.

One sort of absurd kludge is to use an HTML macro, save, copy the rendered text, edit, and paste over the HTML macro.

Robert Lauriston

Well, as I said, this seems like an absurd kludge, but it works: paste the HTML in an HTML macro, save, copy the rendered text, edit, and paste over the HTML macro.

Robert Lauriston

I guess Atlassian's answer is to buy Arsenale Invisible Ink:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23914

Robert Lauriston

Kludge no longer necessary, just install the Confluence Source Editor plugin.

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor/version/6

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