"Eddie" <non### [at] nowherecom> wrote in message 
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> Jim, I don't know PHP but I suspect you're approaching this the wrong way.

don't think so, perhaps I've not communicated clearly ....

> You don't need to create PHP scripts, you simply need to create one or 
> more XML documents with the text of the pages in the WIKI text format.

the PHP scripts are to pull the data back out in various formats .... pdf, 
latex, windows (chm) .....
the perl script is to process those pesky pov-centric tags (sectiondesc, 
indexentry, linkto) by wrapping them in comments so they are not end user 
viewable but are there none the less for PHP script to find them later. 
There are also some wiki-isms that I've had to account for. This process is 
pretty automated. I'm NOT doing any hand edits with the exception of the TeX 
formulas used in the reference. I decided to do that by had as there were 
only about a dozen or so used through out  the entire doc set  .... see on 
the wiki User:Jholsenback

> You can download a few pages to see what the format looks like:
> http://wiki.povray.org/content/Special:Export

yes I've used this feature to export data from other wiki's into mine 
(sandbox) ... it works rather nicely.

> Once they're ready you can e-mail them to an admin like Chris who can 
> import them and the pages defined in the XML file(s) will get created.

I have sysop so I can do that myself.

> Let me know if you need more detail.

no offence ... I'm pretty far up on the curve now. I have a clear vision of 
where I'm going with this.

Cheers

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