How do I convert HTML code to Confluence-style Wiki Markup?

java html confluence mylyn wiki-markup
Vinay Bedre picture Vinay Bedre · May 7, 2012 · Viewed 16.8k times · Source

The API documentation for Mylyn Wikitext has functions to convert Wiki Markup to HTML, but I cannot find functions to convert / parse HTML code to Wiki Markup. Class MarkupParser has method parseToHTML, but where can I find the reverse?

Answer

Graham Hannington picture Graham Hannington · Jun 25, 2012

Try Wikifier.

It doesn't do exactly what you want, but you might find it does enough, or is a useful starting point.

Wikifier converts snippets of the Confluence 4 XML storage format (that is, as presented by the Confluence Source Editor plugin, without a single document root element) into Confluence 3 wiki markup.

Why is this at all relevant to your question? The Confluence 4 XML storage format includes some elements and attributes that have the same names as XHTML elements and attributes.

For more information, click the Help link on the Wikifier web page.

Note: The XSLT stylesheet used by the Wikifier web page is slightly more recent than the XSLT stylesheet bundled with the related schema package.

This added later: Wikifier RT is even closer to what you want.

Related questions

How to send HTTP request in java?

In Java, How to compose a HTTP request message and send it to a HTTP WebServer?

Read More
Remove HTML tags from a String

Is there a good way to remove HTML from a Java string? A simple regex like replaceAll("\\<.*?>", "") will work, but things like &amp; wont be converted correctly and non-HTML between the two angle brackets will be removed (…

Read More
Recommended method for escaping HTML in Java

Is there a recommended way to escape <, >, " and & characters when outputting HTML in plain Java code? (Other than manually doing the following, that is). String source = "The less than sign (<) and ampersand (&) must be escaped …

Read More