Instiki users - Aug 2005 - [Instiki] importing entires

Hello all--
I''ve just downloaded Instiwiki, and love it. Has anyone attempted
importing
entries from an external wiki into Instiwiki? I''m not afraid to write
Ruby
code to do this (I have a large number of entries to import), but am not 
sure how to best go about it, as Instiwiki seems to use an opaque data 
format for storage. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Peter
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HI Peter,

>     I''ve just downloaded Instiwiki, and love it. Has anyone
attempted
> importing entries from an external wiki into Instiwiki? I''m not
afraid to
> write Ruby code to do this (I have a large number of entries to import),
but
> am not sure how to best go about it, as Instiwiki seems to use an opaque
> data format for storage. Any suggestions?
Take a look at the file controller import facility, specifically
import_from_archive. It simply loops through a zip files and creates
each page in turn.

The bigger problem is translating between the two wiki formats. If
your other wiki is using textile or markdown, than all you need is to
save the contents. If, however, it uses another format, you''ll need to
write something to translate between the two formats.

Cheers,
Assaph