I know that MediaWiki has an XML export format (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/XML_export).
The problem is that all the wiki markups are not translated in XML.
The best solution would be to export the mediaWiki data in a docbook xml format.
Unfortunately, as said in http://www.hula-project.org/Wiki_Conversion this seems to be un incomplete solution. (the best solution seems to be flexbisonparse but I didn't try it)
Regards,
Nicolas Margaine
On 2/23/06, Georg Lohrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mark,
On Do, 23 Feb 2006, Mark wrote:
> I'm sure the ability to have multiple authors is useful, but it would
> be
> handy to be able to print the document.
oh that's not mutually exclusive. Most of the Wiki's provide some rather
good
printouts. Some of them (the wikis) even provide a pdf-transfiguration.
> Personally I would like to
> keep the document in plain text or common wordprocessor format for
> simplicity.
The real general text-format with all possible ways of
pre-write-output-transformation would be to use SGML. The next best would
be
to have DocBook or at least on the word-formatting side LaTeX itself.
If someone is a little bit familiar with LaTeX or HTML-formatting, all
Wiki-input basics will be plain easy.
On the other hand, if the information is stored in the wiki it is not
really
simple to get it out of there in another format. If that way is desired
or
necessary, nothing would be as flexible as SGML with different
output-filters
for LaTeX, PDF, DOC-formats, plain-text, etc.
But with a wiki it's very simple and easy to run iterativly through the
edit-store-correct-store cycle. With distinguished documents which have
to be
passed around or are stored in a (distributed) version control system it
will
be a pain.
So it depends on the real needs of this documentation and last not least
the
time the authors will spend for this work.
Ciao, Georg
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