Unable to get the HTML file after conversion

[Harminder singh]

Hi, I am not able to get the HTML file after converting the media wiki xml file. only index.html is generated.

PFA source file and index.html file

[Pascal Lehner]

Hi Can you provide the source file as well? I need to analyse what happened because your target file GBIF is completely empty..

[Harminder singh]

PFA input file

[Pascal Lehner]

will look into it

[Pascal Lehner]

Hi, I just tried a convert job myself. Result isn't very nice but at least I get output. Can you tell me where this file comes from? Which MediaWiki Version is this?

[Pascal Lehner]

Hi Can I get some more information on your source file? I just tested my tool with the current MediaWiki version 1.22.6 and this works fine as well.

[Harminder singh]

i took the sample text from http://biowikifarm.net/meta/Mediawiki_XML_page_importing

and changed value in <text></text> tag

<mediawiki xmlns="http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.4/" 
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.4/ http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.4.xsd" version="0.4"
  xml:lang="en">
  <siteinfo>
   <!-- … the XML header from an arbitrary wiki page export -->
  </siteinfo>
<page>
  <title>GBIF:cultivar</title>
  <revision>
    <contributor><username>User name</username><id>123</id></contributor>
    <text xml:space="preserve">{|
|Orange
|Apple
|-
|Bread
|Pie
|-
|Butter
|Ice cream 
|}</text>
  </revision>
</page>
</mediawiki>

[Pascal Lehner]

Ah well, I think I see the issue: The converter basically just looks at everything within the <page> attribute and renders this information. Due to a special syntax my example database uses, stuff right of a pipe symbol is being ignored. Thus you get an empty output in the file that is being created. My wiki uses * to mark <li> items. Does this work?

[Harminder singh]

i just tried the same input by replacing | with *. still i am not getting any output.

<mediawiki xmlns="http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.4/" 
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.4/ http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.4.xsd" version="0.4"
  xml:lang="en">
  <siteinfo>
   <!-- … the XML header from an arbitrary wiki page export -->
  </siteinfo>
<page>
  <title>GBIF:cultivar</title>
  <revision>
    <contributor><username>User name</username><id>123</id></contributor>
    <text xml:space="preserve">
*collection = GBIF
*short URI = cultivar
*full URI = http://vocabularies.gbif.org/services/gbif/taxon_rank/cultivar
*label = cultivar
*code = cultivar
*see also = http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/rank.xml</text>
  </revision>
</page>
</mediawiki>

Am i doing anything wrong?

[Pascal Lehner]

Hi, I am afraid the tool is quit picky because it has to handle quite a lot of special markup for the case I built it for. Could you try by adding a whitespace before the *?

<text xml:space="preserve">
* collection = GBIF
* short URI = cultivar
* full URI = http://vocabularies.gbif.org/services/gbif/taxon_rank/cultivar
* label = cultivar
* code = cultivar
* see also = http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/rank.xml</text>

I wrote a version two the last few days that enhances the capabilty for my specific case. I will merge these changes into this branch asap as well..

[Harminder singh]

I am still not able to get the output.