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slog, slog, slog . . .
adminutil is now in Fedora, although I still need to use Bodhi to get it into F-7 and devel. Admin Server and Console are getting ever closer. One thing that has made life easier is that we got rid of the old setuputil package that was used for doing installation and setup. We've scripted it now and that has made it much simpler. Those scripts are going into the ds and admin server code. Setup seems to be working ok now for development. You can now setup your configuration directory server, your admin server, and additional directory server instances, or create an admin server and directory servers and register them with an exisiting configuration DS, all with a nice text based user interface. Right now we're working on migration, to make it easy for folks using 7.1 and 1.0 to move to 1.1.
Sun has contributed their LDAP SDK documentation to Mozilla! The Sun legal team finally agreed to the license requested by developer.mozilla.org. So we now have up-to-date documentation. One problem is that the documentation is in docbook format, and we would really like to get it in MediaWiki format for the devmoz wiki. So if anyone knows of a good XSLT script, please let me know. Otherwise, we'll probably just hack the docbook -> html XSLT.
June 29 2007, 06:39:15 UTC 4 years ago
XML to Wiki
Now, Rich, you know how many hours (months?) I've put into converting documentation to XML from HTML. It's also a serious part of what we do in the Fedora Docs Project. Yet, while I detest wiki editors and wiki markup (would comparing it to trying to write DS in JavaScript be apt?), I feel some allegiance to developer.mozilla.org and Dria for convincing me to encourage the wiki to flourish for Fedora. A wiki reminds me of blackberry bushes - sharp, sticky, brambles with canes that wrap around our ankle and never let go, yet the fruit from it is so sweet and wonderful you return again and again for more.So, here is my easier-brute-force-method, and I hope it works for you. :)
With the XML rendered into (X)HTML, open a page in Firefox. Highlight the content, copy it, then paste that into the MediaWiki edit window.
I haven't looked into why this works, but it often does quite well. Sometimes between two different Moin Moin wikis it will paste into the edit window with the markup intact.
Anyway, if that doesn't work, then I guess the full-on-brute-force-method is left.
Umm, naturally, if it is hundreds or thousands of pages, definitely do it programmatically. Even if you have to insert content directly into MySQL for MediaWiki to consume. :)
G'luck,
Karsten
June 29 2007, 17:37:48 UTC 4 years ago
Re: XML to Wiki
Thanks Karsten! I'll have to give that a try.np: "Motel Matches" - Elvis Costello