The library is intended for programmers or developers working on wiki systems supporting the MediaWiki synthax or web-designers parsing and transforming content from Wikipedia.
Here are some key features of "mwlib":
Rendering articles to:
· mwxml
· XHTML 1.0 Transitional
· DocBook XML
· OpenDocument (Text)
Limitations:
· PDF is not supported but a similar project, mwlib.rl does this.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Removed xhtmlwriter.
· Removed docbookwriter.
· fix_wikipedia_siteinfo for kdb, ltg and xmf.
· Removed zipwiki.
· Implement safesubst.
· Match noinclude and onlyinclude tags with whitespace.
· Bail out when running setup.py with an unsupported python version.