On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 03:52:33PM -0500, Alan Hoyle wrote: > On 1/2/07, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 10:11:19AM -0800, Bob Felts wrote: > >> I am unable to find anything on import of existing pages from another > >wiki > >> system into pmwiki. Is this easily done? My company has a few > >thousand > >> TWiki pages established, and I am considering switching to pmwiki. > >> However, this is impossible if we have to abandon all the work > >> accomplished to date. Any suggestions? > > > >I'm not too familiar with TWiki -- does it have a feature or option > >to export your existing pages into files or something that could > >be easily processed? If so, I could see about implementing something > >that could then convert those into PmWiki-compatible formats. > > > >I've done something similar in the past for UseMod wiki pages, and > >it mostly works, although there are often some things that don't > >map exactly (for UseMod, subpages don't have an exact mapping; > >for TWiki there might be some issues with the hierarchical structure > >that TWiki uses). > > When I was first installing wikis, I had a TWiki and PhpWiki > installations. TWiki is Perl-based and uses flat files, though it has > an incompatible wiki markup format.
Oh, that makes things easier. I'm not totally familiar with TWiki's markup format. Any chance you could send me a few page files from your TWiki site containing a representative set of markup that I could work with? I could see about building a TWiki converter from that. Pm _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
