yeah should be mostly simple... the website also uses some stuff to filter out things like javascript. Hopefully there is something similar available for python now. Does lxml support that? Failing that, will have to convert one of the ones from php. feedparser in python is pretty good for that... however it still has some problems.
It's a must for user submitted website content, no matter the markup language. cu, On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Lenard Lindstrom <le...@telus.net> wrote: > Sanitising will be simple. I have tried lxml. Of course there is also > beautifulsoup. Another issue is maintaining consistently across pages. Using > <h..> tags doesn't work. Remembering what header level to use when is > bothersome. If new, more descriptive, header tags could be added that would > be great. And a preview function. > > Lenard > > René Dudfield wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I suggest using the current one - rewritten in python, and fixing that >> bug. I think that's the only code mangling bug it has? >> >> Yeah, the code in the wiki is probably best described as non-strict >> html... or just html... which is not strict itself. The wiki does some >> sanitising on the html after entry. It's only a few lines of code to add a >> gui editor like tinymce... so we could add that for those who don't want to >> use markup. >> >> cheers, >> >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 3:52 AM, Lenard Lindstrom <le...@telus.net<mailto: >> le...@telus.net>> wrote: >> >> Hi René, >> >> I don't know about Trac's tracking system but I find bugzilla >> difficult as it requires report generation. How to get a listing >> of recent bugs is not obvious. >> >> The html markup in the current wiki is not strict XHTML. We do >> want the new site to generate properly formed XHTML pages, or am I >> mistaken. Also Python code gets mangled, '<' replaced with '<' >> for <code> sections. This is probably a data entry problem though. >> But whatever wiki engine is chosen it has to handle this properly. >> Trac does. Do any of the html tag wikis handle it right? What >> alternate wiki do you suggest? >> >> Lenard >> >> >> >> René Dudfield wrote: >> >> hi, >> >> the main way we do bugs with pygame is through the mailing >> list. The internet is a bug tracker. >> >> I wrote a blog post about the reasons why the mailing list is >> good, and what 'the internet is a bug tracker' means: >> http://renesd.blogspot.com/2008/02/bugs-search-not-categorise.html >> >> I personally think trac is a bit rubbish, and have been happy >> with James Paige hosting bugzilla for us. >> >> >> The current pygame wiki just uses simple html. So should be >> fairly straight forward to convert... or we could just leave >> it in html. Since most programmers know html anyway... way >> more than trac markup. >> >> >> >> >> >> >
