Xmindoc

Exports XMind Mindmap to any documents with Pandoc.

XMind (English): http://www.xmind.net/
XMind (Japanese): http://jp.xmind.net/

Requirement

Ruby 1.9.3 or above
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)

Install

libiconv

Mac (Homebrew)

$ brew tap homebrew/dupes
$ brew install libiconv
$ brew link --force libiconv

Linux

$ wget http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.14.tar.gz
$ tar zxvf libiconv-1.14.tar.gz
$ cd libiconv-1.14
$ ./configure
$ make
$ su -
# make install

Xmindoc

$ gem install xmindoc

Usage

Usage: xmindoc [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)

xmindoc -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)

xmindoc -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