Re: MediaWiki to RTF/Word/PDF

2010-02-18 Thread Snaky Love
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 s

Re: MediaWiki to RTF/Word/PDF

2010-02-17 Thread Paul Rubin
Josh English 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 gener

Re: MediaWiki to RTF/Word/PDF

2010-02-17 Thread John Bokma
Josh English 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

Re: MediaWiki to RTF/Word/PDF

2010-02-17 Thread Shashwat Anand
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 wrote: > I have several pages exported from a private MediaWiki that I need to > convert to a PDF do

MediaWiki to RTF/Word/PDF

2010-02-17 Thread Josh English
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