WikiCloth

Ruby implementation of the MediaWiki markup language.

Supports

• Variables, Templates {{ … }}
• Links
  • External Links [ … ]
  • Internal Links, Images [[ … ]]
• Wikimedia Markup
  • == Headings ==
  • Lists (*#;:)
  • bold ('''), italic ('') or both (''''')
  • Horizontal rule (——)
  • Tables
  • Table of Contents [__NOTOC__, __FORCETOC__, __TOC__]
• <code>,<nowiki>,<pre> (disable wiki markup)
• <ref> and <references/> support
• html sanitization

For more information about the MediaWiki markup see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Markup_spec

Install

  git clone git://github.com/nricciar/wikicloth.git
  cd wikicloth/
  rake install

Usage

  @wiki = WikiCloth::Parser.new({
    :data => "<nowiki>{{test}}</nowiki> ''Hello {{test}}!''\n",
    :params => { "test" => "World" } })

  @wiki.to_html => "<p>&#123;&#123;test&#125;&#125;  <i>Hello World!</i></p>"

Advanced Usage

Most features of WikiCloth can be overriden as needed…

  class WikiParser < WikiCloth::Parser

    url_for do |page|
      "javascript:alert('You clicked on: #{page}');"
    end

    link_attributes_for do |page|
      { :href => url_for(page) }
    end

    template do |template|
      "Hello {{{1}}}" if template == "hello"
    end

    external_link do |url,text|
      "<a href=\"#{url}\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"exlink\">#{text.blank? ? url : text}</a>"
    end

  end

  @wiki = WikiParser.new({ 
    :params => { "PAGENAME" => "Testing123" }, 
    :data => "{{hello|world}} From {{ PAGENAME }} -- [www.google.com]"; 
  })

  @wiki.to_html =>
  <p>
  Hello world From Testing123 -- <a href="http://www.google.com" target="_blank" class="exlink">http://www.google.com</a>
  </p>