Hello,

on Mittwoch, 25. April 2007, Berthold Gunreben wrote:
> One aspect of this conversion is how much information exists in the
> original format, that may be used in docbook. MediaWiki (and all
> other wikis I know of) have a very simple format that does not care
> for syntax but only for layout. You could do wild guesses about how
> to convert wiki to xml, but you will never be able to convert it in a
> way that complies with editing standards of DocBook.

Just a quick idea: what about adding "semantic" templates to the wiki?

I'm thinking about {{menu|File}} and similar...

This way the wiki source could have all information needed for 
conversion to docbook.

(Enforcing the use of these semantic templates is another story of 
course ;-)


Regards,

Christian Boltz
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