[pmwiki-users] converting from phpwiki to pmwiki, any suggestions?

[Philip J. Hollenback]

Hi Ian,

Thanks for the response.  I plan on doing basically the same thing as
you are doing, just with perl instead of in an editor.  That seems to
make sense, given the number of pages I have.

I don't think dumping the phpwiki pages to xhtml is the way to go,
because then you lose the phpwiki markup (it's all converted to html,
right?).  Since the phpwiki markup is generally similar to the pmwiki
markup, converting markup->markup seems most efficient.

P.

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:09:29 +0100, "Ian Barton" <lists at manor-
farm.org> said:
> I didn't have as many pages as you. What I did was copy each page into
> jEdit (http://www.jedit.org) and then use a series of macros to search
> and replace phpWiki markup with pmWiki markup.
>
> There were a few pages with complicated tables and numbered lists,
> which were simpler to fix by hand.
>
> Doesn't phpWiki allow you to export pages as XHMTL? This should allow
> you to get all the raw data easily. I did think of using a Perl
> script, but given the time I to wrie and debug it, search and replace
> was easier.
>
> Ian.
>
> Philip J. Hollenback wrote:
>
> >
> > My best idea so far is to hack together something in perl to
> > automatically convert as much of the markup from my phpwiki pages to
> > pmwiki format.  Then I am sure much hand-tweaking will be necessary.
> >
> > Has anyone else attempted this sort of conversion?  Any tips or
> > suggestions would be much appreciated.
>
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