SemanticWikiLinks Extension for Python-Markdown

Adds support for semantic (wiki)links (RDFa).

Converts links of style [[rel :: target | label ]], where rel and label are optional.

Customizable with make_link option as to what the actual element is.

Installation

pip install git+git://github.com/aleray/mdx_semanticwikilinks.git

Usage

>>> text = "Some text with a [[WikiLink]]."
>>> html = markdown.markdown(text, ['semanticwikilinks'])
>>> print(html)
<p>Some text with a <a href="WikiLink">WikiLink</a>.</p>

>>> text = "[[http://activearchives.org/]], [[#id|anchor]], [[../index.html|a relative link]], [[/|an absolute link]], [[/index.html|another absolute link]]"
>>> html = markdown.markdown(text, ['semanticwikilinks'])
>>> print(html)
<p><a href="http://activearchives.org/">http://activearchives.org/</a>, <a href="#id">anchor</a>, <a href="../index.html">a relative link</a>, <a href="/">an absolute link</a>, <a href="/index.html">another absolute link</a></p>

Define a custom URL builder:

>>> def make_rdfa(md, rel, target, label):
...     # `md` is the Markdown instance
...     elt = etree.Element("span")
...     elt.set("property", rel)
...     elt.set("value", target)
...     elt.text = label or target
...     return elt

>>> md = markdown.Markdown(extensions=['semanticwikilinks'],
...         extension_configs={'semanticwikilinks' : [('make_link', make_rdfa)]})
>>> html = md.convert('[[ Speaker :: Sherry Turkle | Second Self ]]')
>>> print(html)
<p><span property="aa:Speaker" value="Sherry Turkle">Second Self</span></p>

Change the default namespace (which is "aa"):

>>> md = markdown.Markdown(extensions=['semanticwikilinks'],
...         extension_configs={'semanticwikilinks' : [('namespace', 'mynamespace')]})
>>> html = md.convert('[[ Speaker :: Sherry Turkle | Second Self ]]')
>>> print(html)
<p><a href="Sherry Turkle" rel="mynamespace:Speaker">Second Self</a></p>

To do

• An optional function to wikify names? (It is already possible to achieve this with the custom make_link function).

Dependencies

• Markdown 2.0+

Copyright

• 2011, 2012 The active archives contributors
• 2011, 2012 Michael Murtaugh
• 2011, 2012 Alexandre Leray

All rights reserved.

This software is released under the modified BSD License. See LICENSE.md for details.