I'm looking to parse the text contents ("old_text" field) of articles in the "text" table from a pages_articles.xml dump into MySQL, without using MediaWiki. How exactly would I do this? I tried extracting functions from parser.php but this proved fairly complicated given the dependencies involved (with includes and global variables); and I'm not sure how the functions work anyway. What I need is something that can ignore stuff like Image and WikiQuote code, replace the headers with h1/h2/h3/etc. tags, and maybe parse external and internal links. In other words, I'm looking for something that takes the text field and parses it to be able to display in basic readable HTML output without any bells and whistles. Is there any function like this available anywhere? Or some guide on the specs of such a function? Saqib