[Mediawiki-l] What is the current state of content importing/exporting?

[Andrew Johnson]

Kyle H wrote:
> 
> That being said, though, I'd love to see an HTML-to-WikiCode
> translator that would take (for example) <ol> and <ul> and their
> associated <li>'s and make them either '#' or '*' respectively.  I'd
> love to see something to convert <h1>text</h1> to =text=, and so on. 
> That way, among other things, MS Word would be able to use its "edit
> HTML" mode (no matter how ugly it makes its HTML) and import it back
> into the wiki, with Wiki Markup.  I'll probably end up writing it
> myself, since most of the documentation for my project is already in
> HTML format.

This already exists, and it's not restricted to MediaWiki output either:

http://diberri.dyndns.org/html2wiki.html

- Andrew
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