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#1 2004-04-28 10:53:20
- djfoobarmatt
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reverse textile
I’m planning to use textile and texpattern as part of a larger system but would need to be able to import textpattern articles from an external document. The way i thought i’d do it was to convert the doc to xhtml and then do a ‘reverse textile’ conversion if that’s a plausible idea. I can’t find any php that does this so i assume it’s a oneway process textile->xhtml at the moment.
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Re: reverse textile
I’m doing the same. Here’s my process.
1. copy article body out of old xhtml page
2. replace all: <code><p></code>, <code><br /></code> with nothing
3. replace all: heading tags and blockquotes with hn and bq
4. replace all: <code>< p class=”</code> with p(
5. replace all stylized quotes with straight-ASCII ones
That’s pretty much all except in a few special cases. With keyboard shortcuts, it goes pretty quick.
(edit: looks like formatting has changed, old tricks no longer work…)
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#3 2004-05-05 12:22:37
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Re: reverse textile
In case anyone is interested, code for this can be found here
patches and bug reports welcome.
matt
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#4 2004-05-05 12:47:02
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Re: reverse textile
Of course i’ve only just realised that most of it is not needed since textile let’s you put xhtml inline and it works ok. Perhaps I can cut out most of it and pass though the tags instead of trying to convert them all back.
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#5 2004-05-18 03:52:30
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Re: reverse textile
if i do <code><i>italics</i></code> it works – <i>italics</i>
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#6 2004-06-02 10:11:03
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Re: reverse textile
Anyone still have this script kicking around… I have a tonne of hand coded pages that I refuse to move into txp simply becuase I don’t want to re-write them using textile
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#8 2004-12-22 11:11:58
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Re: reverse textile
http://www.matthewsmith.id.au/textpattern/classReverseTextile.phps link
http://www.matthewsmith.id.au/textpattern/demo.phps link
http://www.matthewsmith.id.au/textpattern/demo.php link
It’s not very forgiving because it parses as XML. For real HTML needs a bit of html tidy support as well. Apparently it’s possible to get html tidy working in PHP. I find it’s usable on small pages.
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Re: reverse textile
I’ve been playing with this today and foudn the following problems:
I needed to just convert some HTML (not an entire webpage) but by missing out the html and body tags this code produced an error – due to its strict XML handling.
My solution:
- add html and body (starting and end tags to my HTML)
- perform the reverseTextile function
- remove the html and body (starting and end tags)
the code:
<p><code>$html = ‘<html><body>’.$text.’</body></html>’;
$rt = new ReverseTextile;
$text = $rt->ReverseTextileThis($html);
$text = preg_replace(‘|<html><body>|’, ‘’,$text);
$text = preg_replace(‘|</body</html>|’, ‘’,$text);
</code></p>
The preg_replace’s could be streamlined. I am not the best programmer but the thought is there!
Problems:
the code doesn’t work too hot with lists. And doesn’t add the space after the # or * thus negating their use to Textile. The code also doesn’t seem to add a carriage return after a list item has been converted to textile.
Last edited by doubleonegative (2005-08-22 11:55:05)
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Re: reverse textile
This would be an interesting feature for Textpattern’s importing code. I have a ton of posts on my Blogger site that have embedded HTML. Fixing 2200 entries by hand is going to get old pretty quick…
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