Introduction

Plans created with the Gnome (Linux) application Planner, can be converted with this xslt-script:

Save this xslt as "planner2timeline.xsl":

 <?xml version='1.0'  encoding="iso-8859-15"?>
 
 <xsl:stylesheet
        xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
        version='1.0'>
 
 <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="iso-8859-15" indent="yes"/>
 
 <xsl:template match="/">
  <data>
   <xsl:attribute name="wiki-url">http://simile.mit.edu/shelf/</xsl:attribute>
   <xsl:attribute name="wiki-section">
    <xsl:value-of select="/project/@name"/>
   </xsl:attribute>
 
    <xsl:apply-templates select="/project/tasks/*"/>
 
  </data>
 
 </xsl:template>
 
 <xsl:template match="task">
  <event>
   <xsl:attribute name="title">
    <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
   </xsl:attribute>
 
   <xsl:attribute name="start">
    <xsl:call-template name="format-date">
     <xsl:with-param name="date-time" select="@start" />
    </xsl:call-template>
   </xsl:attribute>
 
   <xsl:if test="@type != 'milestone'">
    <xsl:attribute name="end">
     <xsl:call-template name="format-date">
      <xsl:with-param name="date-time" select="@end" />
     </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:attribute>
    <xsl:attribute name="isDuration">true</xsl:attribute>
   </xsl:if>
 
   <xsl:value-of select="@note"/>
  </event>
 
  <xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>
 </xsl:template>
 
 <xsl:template name="format-date">
  <xsl:param name="date-time"/>
  <xsl:value-of select="substring($date-time,7,2)"/>
  <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
  <xsl:call-template name="month-name">
   <xsl:with-param name="month-number" select="substring($date-time,5,2)" />
  </xsl:call-template>
  <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
  <xsl:value-of select="substring($date-time,1,4)"/>
  <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
  <xsl:value-of select="substring($date-time,10,2)"/>
  <xsl:text>:</xsl:text>
  <xsl:value-of select="substring($date-time,12,2)"/>
  <xsl:text>:</xsl:text>
  <xsl:value-of select="substring($date-time,14,2)"/>
 </xsl:template>
 
 <xsl:template name="month-name">
  <xsl:param name="month-number"/>
  <xsl:choose>
   <xsl:when test="$month-number=01">Jan</xsl:when>
   <xsl:when test="$month-number=02">Feb</xsl:when>
   <xsl:when test="$month-number=03">Mar</xsl:when>
   <xsl:when test="$month-number=04">Apr</xsl:when>
   <xsl:when test="$month-number=05">May</xsl:when>
   <xsl:when test="$month-number=06">Jun</xsl:when>
   <xsl:when test="$month-number=07">Jul</xsl:when>
   <xsl:when test="$month-number=08">Aug</xsl:when>
   <xsl:when test="$month-number=09">Sep</xsl:when>
   <xsl:when test="$month-number=10">Oct</xsl:when>
   <xsl:when test="$month-number=11">Nov</xsl:when>
   <xsl:when test="$month-number=12">Dec</xsl:when>
  </xsl:choose>
 </xsl:template>
 </xsl:stylesheet>

This xslt ignores everything about timezones, so if you need that, you have to add it yourself.

Create and save your plan (i.e. as "myplan.planner") with the Planner tool.

Convert your new plan with:

xsltproc ./planner2timeline.xsl myplan.planner > mytimeline.xml

From here you just have to do the normal java-scripting and HTML coding to do load the timeline data.