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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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.