XMorgDown

Exports XMind Mindmap to any documents with Pandoc.

Date: August 19, 2012
Copyright (c) 2012 Yuki Fujiwara <[email protected]>

This software is released under the MIT License, see LICENSE.

• XMind (English): http://www.xmind.net/
• XMind (Japanese): http://jp.xmind.net/
  • CAUTION for Japanese: XMind 2012 (New Version) currently has a problem of Japanese input. Use XMind 3.2 (from Japanese site) for a while.

Requirement

• Ruby 1.9.3 or above
  • Use of rvm is recommended
• Pandoc 1.9.4.2 or above
  • See installation: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/installing.html
  • You can choose either:
    • cabal install (with Haskell Platform, I prefer personally) or
    • Pandoc Package Installer (without Haskell Platform)
• Nokogiri (XML Parser for Ruby)
  • See installation: http://nokogiri.org/tutorials/installing_nokogiri.html
  • homebrew 0.9 has some problems: read the URL above carefully.
• zipruby (https://bitbucket.org/winebarrel/zip-ruby/wiki/Home)
  • Install with: gem install zipruby

Usage

Usage: ruby XMorgDown.rb [options] input.xmind
-o, --output FILE                Output Filename
-t, --to=FORMAT                  Output formats: markdown, org, html, latex, rst,  ... 
-w, --write=FORMAT               Output formats: markdown, org, html, latex, rst,  ... 
    --pandoc-options=OPTIONS     Pandoc options (Use double quotes like "--atx-headers")
-h, --help                       Display this screen

• For detail of formats and Pandoc options: See Pandoc User's Guide

Examples

Sample files are in samples/ directory.

Example 1 (Japanese: 寿限無)

ruby XMorgDown.rb -t markdown -o test1.md samples/test1.xmind --pandoc-options="--atx-headers"

• It makes a file "test1.md" as in Markdown (ATX-headered) style.

Example files

• Original XMind file: test1.xmind (test1.png as image)
• Sample Result (Org File): test1.org
• Sample Result (Markdown File): test1.md
• "--atx-headers": use # and ## as <h1> and <h2> header output

Example 2 (English: Lorem Ipsum)

ruby XMorgDown.rb -t org -o test2.org samples/test2.xmind

• It makes a file "test2.org" in Org style.

Example files

• Original XMind file: test2.xmind (test2.png as image)
• Result (Org File): test2.org
• Result (Markdown File): test2.md