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HTML-WikiConverter-0.50
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NAME

HTML::WikiConverter - Convert HTML to wiki markup

SYNOPSIS

  use HTML::WikiConverter;
  my $wc = new HTML::WikiConverter( dialect => 'MediaWiki' );
  print $wc->html2wiki( $html );

DESCRIPTION

HTML::WikiConverter is an HTML to wiki converter. It can convert HTML source into a variety of wiki markups, called wiki "dialects". The following dialects are supported:

  DokuWiki
  Kwiki
  MediaWiki
  MoinMoin
  Oddmuse
  PhpWiki
  PmWiki
  SlipSlap
  TikiWiki
  UseMod
  WakkaWiki
  WikkaWiki

Note that while dialects usually produce satisfactory wiki markup, not all features of all dialects are supported. Consult individual dialects' documentation for details of supported features. Suggestions for improvements, especially in the form of patches, are very much appreciated.

METHODS

new

  my $wc = new HTML::WikiConverter( dialect => $dialect, %attrs );

Returns a converter for the specified wiki dialect. Dies if $dialect is not provided or its dialect module is not installed on your system. Attributes may be specified in %attrs; see "ATTRIBUTES" for a list of recognized attributes.

html2wiki

  $wiki = $wc->html2wiki( $html );
  $wiki = $wc->html2wiki( html => $html );
  $wiki = $wc->html2wiki( file => $file );
  $wiki = $wc->html2wiki( file => $file, slurp => $slurp );

Converts HTML source to wiki markup for the current dialect. Accepts either an HTML string $html or an HTML file $file to read from.

You may optionally bypass HTML::Parser's incremental parsing of HTML files (thus slurping the file in all at once) by giving $slurp a true value.

parsed_html

  my $html = $wc->parsed_html;

Returns HTML::TreeBuilder's representation of the last-parsed syntax tree, showing how the input HTML was parsed internally. This is often useful for debugging.

dialect

  my $dialect = $wc->dialect;

Returns the dialect passed to new.

ATTRIBUTES

You may configure HTML::WikiConverter using a number of attributes. These may be passed as arguments to the new constructor, or can be called as object methods on a HTML::WikiConverter object.

Some dialects allow other attributes in addition to those below. Consult individual dialect documentation for details.

dialect

Required. Dialect to use when converting

base_uri

URI to use for converting relative URIs to absolute ones. This effectively ensures that the src and href attributes of image and anchor tags, respectively, are absolute before converting the HTML to wiki markup, which is necessary for wiki dialects that handle internal and external links separately. Relative URLs are only converted to absolute ones if the base_uri argument is present. Defaults to undef.

wiki_uri

URI used in determining which links are wiki links. This assumes that URLs to wiki pages are created by joining the wiki_uri with the (possibly escaped) wiki page name. For example, the English Wikipedia would use "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/", while Ward's wiki would use "http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?". Defaults to undef.

wrap_in_html

Helps HTML::TreeBuilder parse HTML fragments by wrapping HTML in <html> and </html> before passing it through html2wiki. Boolean, enabled by default.

encoding

Specifies the encoding used by the HTML to be converted. Also determines the encoding of the wiki markup returned by the html2wiki method. Defaults to 'utf8'.

strip_comments

Removes HTML comments from the input before conversion to wiki markup. Boolean, enabled by default.

strip_head

Removes the HTML head element from the input before converting. Boolean, enabled by default.

strip_scripts

Removes all HTML script elements from the input before converting. Boolean, enabled by default.

ADDING A DIALECT

Consult HTML::WikiConverter::Dialects for documentation on how to write your own dialect module for HTML::WikiConverter. Or if you're not up to the task, drop me an email and I'll have a go at it when I get a spare moment.

SEE ALSO

HTML::Tree, HTML::Element

AUTHOR

David J. Iberri, <diberri at cpan.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-html-wikiconverter at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=HTML-WikiConverter. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc HTML::WikiConverter

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2006 David J. Iberri, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.