Re: MediaWiki to RTF/Word/PDF
Hi, - I checked some ways doing this, and starting over with a new thing will give you a lot of headaches - all XSLT processors have one or another problem - success depends very much on how you where using wikipedia (plugins?) and you will have to expect a lot of poking around with details and still not beeing happy with the solutions available - there are many really crazy approaches out there to generate pdf of mediawiki markup - many tried, not many succeeded, most of them stop at good enough for me-level. So it might be a good idea, not running too far away from what they are doing at http://code.pediapress.com - you will spend much less time with installing ubuntu in a virtualbox. However there is one quite impressive tool, that does pdf conversion via css and is good for getting the job done quick and not too dirty: http://www.princexml.com/samples/ - scroll down to the mediawiki examples - they offer a free license for non-commercial projects. Good luck! Have a nice day, Snaky -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
MediaWiki to RTF/Word/PDF
I have several pages exported from a private MediaWiki that I need to convert to a PDF document, or an RTF document, or even a Word document. So far, the only Python module I have found that parses MediaWiki files is mwlib, which only runs on Unix, as far as I can tell. I'm working on Windows here. Has anyone heard of a module that parses wiki markup and transforms it? Or am I looking at XSLT? Josh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: MediaWiki to RTF/Word/PDF
why not try installing cygwin. I am just guessing though but I had heard it emulates *nix decently on windows. Or a better idea is to shift to *nix ;) On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Josh English joshua.r.engl...@gmail.comwrote: I have several pages exported from a private MediaWiki that I need to convert to a PDF document, or an RTF document, or even a Word document. So far, the only Python module I have found that parses MediaWiki files is mwlib, which only runs on Unix, as far as I can tell. I'm working on Windows here. Has anyone heard of a module that parses wiki markup and transforms it? Or am I looking at XSLT? Josh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: MediaWiki to RTF/Word/PDF
Josh English joshua.r.engl...@gmail.com writes: I have several pages exported from a private MediaWiki that I need to convert to a PDF document, or an RTF document, or even a Word document. So far, the only Python module I have found that parses MediaWiki files is mwlib, which only runs on Unix, as far as I can tell. I'm working on Windows here. Has anyone heard of a module that parses wiki markup and transforms it? Or am I looking at XSLT? One option might be to install a printer driver that prints to PDF and just print the web pages. Using Saxon or AltovaXML and a suitable stylesheet might give you the nicest looking result though (but quite some work). -- John Bokma j3b Hacking Hiking in Mexico - http://johnbokma.com/ http://castleamber.com/ - Perl Python Development -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: MediaWiki to RTF/Word/PDF
Josh English joshua.r.engl...@gmail.com writes: Has anyone heard of a module that parses wiki markup and transforms it? Or am I looking at XSLT? MediaWiki markup is quite messy and unless MediaWiki has an XML export feature that I don't know about, I don't see what good XSLT can do you. (The regular MediaWiki API generates XML results with wiki markup embedded in it). It looks like mediawiki itself can create pdf's (see any page on en.wikibooks.org for example), but the rendered pdf is not that attractive. I remember something about a Haskell module to parse mediawiki markup, if that is of any use. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
