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

chr at home.se chr at home.se
Wed Mar 30 02:56:28 CST 2005


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

> > 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...
> 
> Well, relative links could be made to work if the basepage was
> known -- on the other hand, I would expect most relative links to
> other pages (as opposed to attachments) to become [[page name]] links
> rather than [[text -> something.html]], so there'd still be some
> manual editing to do.
> 
> List structures worked for me at least to the first bullet; anything more
> complex than that probably still requires editing.  At any rate, I've
> been able to do migrations of several fairly extensive sites via 
> copy and paste in less than an hour.

That sounds good. Perhaps the need isn't so great then.

/Christian

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