Re: Wiki Data

I actually found something interesting with this.  I copied the Wiki text
from an SWN page that gave me trouble and put in on my own wiki (that runs
a seemingly more current version of MoinMoin) and I didn't have any
trouble.  I was going to try to figure out a way to form the Wiki text
such that the parser didn't go weird, but I gave up on that since the data
I need is otherwise available.

Thanks for the input.

-Jeff

> My experience has been that MoinMoin's XML formatter is rarely "well
> formed." I believe the reason is the Wiki engine assumes no pages will
> contain HTML tags. When they do contain HTML the encoder gets very
> confused.
>
> I'm sorry I don't have a solution at this time. I had the same issue
> with my MoinMoin Wiki and never figured it out. I ended up switching
> to a different engine (MediaWiki) but I don't think SeattleWireless is
> going to switch just to get well-formed XML.
>
> On 7/11/05, J. Kyllo <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Well, I have figured out that it is included in MoinMoin by default.
>> Another question though, has anyone here actually ever tried parsing the
>> xml from this formatter?  A substantial number of pages from the SWN
>> wiki
>> (like FrontPage, for example) are returning invalid XML.  This is vexing
>> to say the least.  Basically it ends up doing this:
>>
>> <s1>
>>  <s2>
>>    <p>
>>      </s2>
>>    </p>
>> </s1>
>>
>> It doesn't seem to be all pages, but I have not yet figured out what is
>> causing it to behave this way.  Any thoughts are welcome.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jeff
>>
>> > Dang, that's sweet.  Is that a formatter that is installed by default?
>> >
>> > -Jeff
>> >
>> >> Throw "?action=format&mimetype=text/xml"  after the WikiPage:
>> >>
>> >> http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/RecentChanges?action=format&mim
>> >> etype=text/xml
>> >>
>> >>> -----Original Message-----
>> >>> From: [email protected]
>> >>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J. Kyllo
>> >>> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 10:59 AM
>> >>> To: [email protected]
>> >>> Subject: Wiki Data
>> >>>
>> >>> Does anyone know if there is a clean, easy, correct, or
>> >>> generally okay way to grab a page from the wiki besides a
>> >>> normal http get to the url?  The idea is that I want the
>> >>> processed output from just the page itself so that I can
>> >>> parse it.  A normal grab of the page will also include all of
>> >>> the navigation links at the top and bottom whereas grabbing
>> >>> the raw text doesn't evaluate the embedded actions.
>> >>>
>> >>> I thought I had heard about some xml communication that could
>> >>> be done, but I'm not sure.
>> >>>
>> >>> Any ideas or thoughts?
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks,
>> >>> Jeff
>> >>>
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