On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 10:18 AM, James Montalvo &lt;jamesmontalvo3(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: if them That is possible, yes. For example (via RESTBase): curl -X POST --header "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" --header "Accept: text/plain; profile="mediawiki.org/specs/wikitext/1.0.0 "" -d 'html=<h1>Heading</h1><p>Hello world</p>' " https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/transform/html/to/wikitext" -- Eric Evans eevans(a)wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

On 11/06/2015 10:18 AM, James Montalvo wrote: The right answer is: "It depends" :-) As Eric responded in his reply, Parsoid does convert some kinds of arbitrary HTML to clean wikitext. See some additional examples at the end of this email. However, if you really threw arbitrary HTML at it (ex: <em>..</em> or <strong>..</strong>) Parsoid wouldn't know that it could potentially use '' or ''' for those tags. Or, if you gave it input with all kinds of css and other inlined attributes, you won't necessarily get the best wikitext from it. But, if you tried to convert HTML that you got from say Google docs, Open Office, Word, or other HTML-generation tools, the wikitext you get may not be very pretty. We do want to keep improving Parsoid's abilities to get there, but it has not been a high priority for us, but it would be a great GSoC or volunteer project if someone wants to play with this and improve this feature given that we are always playing catch up with all the other things we need to get done. But, if you didn't have really arbitrary HTML, you can get some reasonable looking wikitext out of it even without the markers. But, things like images, templates, extensions .. obviously require the additional attributes for Parsoid to generate canonical wikitext for that. Hope this helps. Subbu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some html -> wt examples: [subbu@earth bin] echo "<h2>foo</h2><p>a</p><p>b</p>" | node parse --html2wt == foo == a b [subbu@earth bin] echo "<a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampi'>Hampi</a>" | node parse --html2wt [[Hampi]] [subbu@earth bin] echo "<a href='http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna'>Luna</a>" | node parse --html2wt [[:it:Luna|Luna]] [subbu@earth bin] echo "<a href='http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna'>Luna</a>" | node parse --html2wt --prefix itwiki [[Luna]] [subbu@earth bin] echo "<ul><li>a</li><li>b</li><li>c</li></ul>" | node parse --html2wt * a * b * c [subbu@earth bin] echo <em>foo</em>" | node parse --html2wt <em>foo</em> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Thanks for the responses. I do want to convert HTML that cannot be assumed to be clean, so it sounds like Parsoid will not solve the problem for now.

--James On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Gabriel Wicke &lt;gwicke(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l