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Re: [xwiki-users] integrating data from JSPWiki/DokuWiki/mediawiki

2015-03-23 Thread Thomas Mortagne

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Nicolas Delsaux
nicolas.dels...@gmx.fr wrote:

Le 19/03/2015 16:10, vinc...@massol.net a écrit :

Nice choice! :)

Yeah, for now, as I'm only evaluating it, I'm rather happy.

Yes, this is an old script written a long time ago (not by me, I just made
it available on that page ;)), before XWiki Rendering (see
http://rendering.xwiki.org) existed. I have no idea how well it works.

My concern about this script is that its status regarding full wiki import
is ... undetermined.

So to summarize, we’re lacking some nice migrators to migrate from all
those wikis to XWiki. We only have scripts maintained by the community.

Now we’ve put in place all the infrastructure for such a migrator. We call
it the Filters Application (a bad name IMO but it does more than just
migrate content from wiki to wikis, it accepts any input and any output).
See http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Filter+Application

Right now this Filters app supports only a few input/outputs:

http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Filter+Module#HExistingmodules

Since there’s a confluence input module, it means you can give this Filter
app a confluence zip as input and as output you can put an XWiki instance
and it’ll import the content.

So, from what I understand, my best solution would be to write extensions
to the filter module supporting JSPWiki and Dokuwiki. I could/should rely
upon the Rendering framework which seems to understand both syntaxes with
ease.

Am I right ? And if so, what would be, to your mind, the estimated duration
of such a development ?

This is the best long term solution yes and you benefit from all the
work done for other importer for all the bulletproofing in instance
output filter.

You can look at the module in
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/tree/master/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-filter/xwiki-platform-filter-streams/
for inspiration.

For the estimated duration I don't really know since most of the time
depend on the format you are going to read and find a suitable
replacement in the existing generic events. I spend 90% of my time
just trying to understand the format when I did the Confluence module
and there is still possible improvements but I'm sure you can't have a
format that horrible in dokuwiki and jspwiki. Dokuwiki should not be
too hard unless there is a lot of new features to find equivalent to
compared to the last time I used it. I don't know JSPWiki except by
name so not much idea here.

A note on the existing syntaxes parsers in the rendering for dokuwiki
and jspwiki: there is a few tests but those are not the most tested
modules so you might find some differences compared to the standard
behavior in the last version of dokuwiki and jspwiki.

Thanks anyway for the answer.

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Re: [xwiki-users] integrating data from JSPWiki/DokuWiki/mediawiki

2015-03-23 Thread Thomas Mortagne

Actually I did not looked if there was a parser for dokuwiki and
jspwiki but I guess you can reuse a parser done for one of the
existing extensions.

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Thomas Mortagne
thomas.morta...@xwiki.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Nicolas Delsaux
nicolas.dels...@gmx.fr wrote: