[pmwiki-users] html2wiki

[José Geraldo Gouvêa]

I have seen on pmwiki.org that there is a request for a tool to convert html 
text to wiki markup. I left a small note on top of the page mentioning that I 
have found such a tool: a perl script called html2wiki (part of the package 
libhtml-wikiconverter-perl on ubuntu).

html2wiki IS the solution for offline conversion:

html2wiki --dialect=PmWiki file.html > file.wiki

It works! And the generated code is quite clean: no cluttered paragraphs, all 
headings and links handled correctly. The only time it choked with me was 
while converting a firefox bookmarks file (the bookmarks were to be put as a 
definition list, but the empyt dt tags of the links which weren't named broke 
the process).

Now, what? The generated wikitext must be inserted into a wiki page. Because 
PmWiki does not store the page content into a separate text file it is still 
necessary to open the page for editing. Perhaps in the future we find some 
way to improve this.

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José Geraldo Gouvêa