I want to try to connect this somehow to a CGI to make a webpage where people can paste in HTML and get wikitext out by clicking a button. This would make it easy to convert HTML tables I run across to wikitables quickly, by just a couple copy and pastes. However, I seem to be completely inept at compiling this. I tried "cc main.cpp" but I get complaints about errors from ld about Undefined symbols: std:: ....
I apologize for seeming clueless but my only C++ experience is with Visual C++. Is my build environment messed up or do I need to be compiling differently? Perhaps a makefile would be helpful here. I'm running Mac OS X 10.3 with the developer tools installed.
- David
Magnus Manske wrote:
I hacked a little C++ utility (hereby under GPL, source files attached) that converts HTML to wiki markup. A few points:
- It should compile on any Windows/*nix system (you might have to turn
off warnings, though)
- Pipe the HMTL in, and get wiki markup out
- Shouldn't touch existing wiki markup
- Keeps HTML if there's no wiki markup defined for it
- Other wiki markup (for other wikis) can be added with only a few lines
of source
- Internally uses a new string class with 32-bit-chars (potential for
unicode there, also it should work with unicode "as is")
Downsides:
- Doesn't check HTML/wiki markup validity (broken HTML will become
broken wiki markup, which might be less bad though)
- Ignores <nowiki> (though I don't think that matters)
Idea: Have a checkbox on the edit page (or maybe on preferences instead) that says: "Convert HTML to wiki markup on preview"
Conversion *should* only take place prior to preview, so a human can make certain nothing's broken.
Magnus
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