Converting from Trac's Wiki Syntax to Markdown

[Guy Rutenberg]

Hi,

I want to convert pages in the Wiki syntax used by Trac to markdown. Is there a good solution?

I found a few very shorts scripts that attempt to do so, but none that really looked promising. I've also considered using WikiParser from trac.wiki to get a DOM tree of the trac wiki and then write code that will convert it to markdown, but I've ran into problems using WikiParser.

I've tried:

from trac.wiki import WikiParser
from trac.core import ComponentManager

wp = WikiParser(ComponentManager())
wp.parse(my_wiki_text)

But the last line simply returns my_wiki_text as is, instead of a WikiDOM tree as the documentations says. Any idea what I did wrong?

Thanks,

Guy

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[RjOllos]

You didn't do anything wrong. The "parse" method hasn't been implemented yet, and the Trac API doesn't produce a WikiDOM tree yet:

http://trac.edgewall.org/browser/trunk/trac/wiki/parser.py?marks=222,225&rev=12732#L211

You might take a look at this proposal, but I don't know of anything that will directly help you at the moment.

http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracDev/Proposals/WikiParserFormatterSplit

 

[Ryan Ollos]

You might have better luck converting the HTML to markdown with a tool such as this one:
http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/