From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: idea: Module to automatically extract and insert information from Wikipedia
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:11:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EBEA8BC.4080106@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111112164008.GA5922@khaled-laptop>
On 12-11-2011 17:40, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 05:31:23PM +0100, Philipp Gesang wrote:
>> (Beware that processing wiki text from WP is extremely
>> complicated due to WP’s using special plugins (“templates” and
>> stuff). So the only way to make sure that a parser accept any
>> well formed WP page would be to include all those plugins. Which
>> would entail rewriting the PHP code in Lua for use as a context
>> script. And then you’d have to decide for every plugin what its
>> output should look like in Context.[0] If you have the time ...)
>
> I think scraping the MediaWiki-generated HTML would be simpler.
Doesn't it also depend on the first line being recognizable as such?
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-12 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-12 15:19 Paul Menzel
2011-11-12 16:31 ` Philipp Gesang
2011-11-12 16:40 ` Khaled Hosny
2011-11-12 17:11 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2011-11-13 6:07 ` Aditya Mahajan
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