[gambit-list] man _gambit func_

Marc Feeley feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Wed Feb 11 10:31:40 EST 2009


On 11-Feb-09, at 10:25 AM, Adrien Piérard wrote:

> That is the problem: whereas the hyperspec is website where they  
> kept it simple, GETting from the wiki means loads of useless  
> informations (that is, what makes it a wiki: all those links on the  
> left, and the links "edit this page" "discussions" on top, etc).
>
> Therefor, I wonder if it's possible to dump a static image of the  
> content of the wiki, that would generate some proper HTML with no  
> hint that it comes from a wiki.
>
> Say,
> <html>
>   <header>
>     <title>foo</title>
>   </header>
>   <body>
>   <h1>foo</h1>
>   This is the <b>foo</b> procedure. It is a kind of <b><a  
> href="bar.html">bar</a></b>
>   </body>
> </html>
>
> Which is a lot friendlier that what you'd get by GETting the  
> wikipage (I once tried to get some pages of wikipedia, it's close to  
> impossible to parse properly)
> And that could be packaged with along gambit in distributions/OSs, à  
> la Hyperspec (though ours would be meant to evolve along with  
> gambit, unlike hyperspec since CL is defined)

I already have a Gambit script to do that.  Perhaps this can be added  
to the distribution if I clean it up a bit.

Marc




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