[Mediawiki-l] Eliminating Wiki Markup from Search Results

[Wood, Jamey]

Is there some established way to ensure that the snippets shown with MediaWiki search results will not include raw Wiki markup?  I've looked around and found others noting this issue for both the "Lucene search" extension:

  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/778166/mediawiki-lucene-how-to-strip-markup

...and the default search mechanism:

  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search_issues#.22Search_Results_Show_Markup_Junk.22
  http://www.searchtools.com/analysis/mediawiki-search/5-mw-search-stinks-shows-markup.html

Unfortunately, none of these mention a working solution.

Would it be best to use the rendered HTML output of Wiki pages to generate these snippets?  That seems like the only way to be sure that you're properly transforming any Wiki text (and handling the syntax additions of any extensions you may have installed, etc).  If so, is there any publically-available code to make that happen?

Thanks,
Jamey