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| | =Wiki Books Project= | | =Wiki Books Project= |
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| | The objective of this project is to implement a solution that allows compilations of wiki pages to be exported as books in ODF and/or PDF. | | The objective of this project is to implement a solution that allows compilations of wiki pages to be exported as books in ODF and/or PDF. |
| − | | + | We'll be using the [[Help:Collections|Pediapress Collection extension]] to achieve this. |
| − | ==Steps==
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| − | ===Define a sequence of wiki pages to make up a book===
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| − | The documentation wiki makes use of [[Template:Documentation/MasterTOC|TOC templates]] to define a wiki book.
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| − | ===Export wiki pages===
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| − | This includes recursively parsing the pages referenced by the main TOC (for sub-TOCs) and remembering the page level for later heading adjustments. Transcluded content needs to be resolved.
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| − | The wiki page needs to be fetched as wiki text, not rendered HTML. This can either be done using the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API mediawiki api.php] or the [[Special:Export|export page]]. Note, that both
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| − | pages use a different XML wrapper for the output.
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| − | parse(mainTOC)
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| − | sub parse(TOC)
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| − | load(TOC)
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| − | foreach entry(TOC)
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| − | parse(entry)
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| − | if contains(subTOC)
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| − | level++
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| − | parse(subTOC)
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| − | endif
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| − | resolvetransclusions
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| − | endfor
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| − | endsub
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| − | ====Fetching a page using the api====
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| − | /api.php?action=query&titles=$pagename&prop=revisions&rvprop=content
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| − | ====Fetching a page using the Export function====
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| − | /wiki/Special:Export/$pagename
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| − | ===Download images===
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| − | ===Adjust heading levels===
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| − | ===Convert to ODF or XML===
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| − | ===ODF: Apply template to ODF (define template)===
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| − | ===ODF: Load in OOo, adjust layout and export PDF===
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| − | ===XML: Apply template to producs XML-FO===
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| − | ===XML: Render PDF===
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Revision as of 16:42, 29 July 2008
Wiki Books Project
The objective of this project is to implement a solution that allows compilations of wiki pages to be exported as books in ODF and/or PDF.
We'll be using the Pediapress Collection extension to achieve this.
