On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Tom Buskey <t...@buskey.name> wrote:
> Nice! I'm surprised there isn't an HTML import already. > > Yeah, me too. But it ain't easy. Thanks to Tom Metro, I've rediscovered Pandoc which will probably be a lot more useful as a conversion engine than my original plan which was to use the node.js Parsoid service. Anyway, it's a work in progress. At this point it's working, but I know that the code can be improved a ton. > One of the beefs I have with wikis I've used is importing (and exporting) > existing documents that already have markup. > > I used to download all the Solaris documents in HTML to CD for use w/o > internet connection. It might've been useful to build a local wiki server > to import them into. > Exactly, there are lots of cases where you have existing HTML, and would want to import it into a wiki. And not just for 'pure knowledgebase wikis'. Think about a satire site that captures existing webpages and then lets users go to town "correcting" or annotating the contents of the original :-) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss