On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 5:30 AM, Alexandre Dulaunoy <a...@foo.be> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 5:23 AM, Chengbin Zheng<chengbinzh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Since the static HTML Wikipedia is not updating (please update), and XML > > updates like everyday, the logical choice is to go with XML. Is there any > > way to convert XML to HTML, like the static HTML version? I need it in > HTML, > > and I don't want a one year old version of Wikipedia, with all the > useless > > information on user talk, discussions, etc. > > Thank you. > > There are plenty of options to parse the XML (or just the Mediawiki > markup) to HTML like : > > - http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/wikiprep/index.php?title=Main_Page > (the parser is decent but currently > no real full featured HTML export) > > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wiki_Slice (but not using XML as source, > just stripping down output using ?action=raw) > > - https://projects.fslab.de/projects/wpofflineclient/wiki/Specifications > (but also using the raw action) > > (a nice article of how to a static version of Wikipedia : > http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/buildWikipediaOffline.html) > > There is a also a nice list of all the parser available (usually from > the Mediawiki markup > to something else) : > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers > > Regarding the XML format, usually you want to seek into the XML and > look for start of > <page> and the end of </page> to get the page and look for the <text> > element containing > the raw page in mediawiki markup format. So you can use all the > existing mediawiki > markup parser as long you have extract the latest revision of the page > in mediawiki format. > > Hope this helps, > > adulau > > -- > -- Alexandre Dulaunoy (adulau) -- http://www.foo.be/ > -- http://www.foo.be/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/Diary > -- "Knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance > -- that we can solve them" Isaac Asimov > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > Hi Alexandre Thank you so much for your response! Do you have a method (or preferably a GUI) that doesn't take insane computer skills to convert XML to HTML? I am clueless of how to do this. I'm simply a 15 year old student that want a copy of Wikipedia on my Archos 5. I don't have the time to learn it. Thanks. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
