[pmwiki-users] Tips on converting HTML-pages into wiki pages

[chr at home.se]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 10:37:58AM +0200, chr at home.se wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > One of my users asked for tips on how to convert existing HTML-pages into 
> > wiki pages? These are pages with documentation, so it's mostly text and 
> > some links I assume.
> 
> I've always found that doing a copy+paste from the HTML page (as rendered
> in a browser, not source) into a wiki page does a very good first
> pass. 

That's what I recommended him to do.

> The rest is just cleanup.

True, with one major exception.

> That said, maybe we can do a rudimentary HTML-to-wiki converter of some
> sort with some judicious pattern matches.

I think the exception are simple links, and possibly list structures. 
Ideally something like

	<a href='http://bla.org'>The Bla Bla organization</a>

would be translated into 

	[[The Bla Bla organization -> http://bla.org]]

But as I wrote the above I realize that you'll probably not get that many 
working links, if they are relative...

/Christian

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