The Gentoo project has its own official wiki for some time now, and we are going to use it more and more in the next few months. For instance, in the last Gentoo Hardened meeting, we already discussed that most user-oriented documentation should be put on the wiki, and I've heard that there are ideas on moving Gentoo project pages at large towards the wiki. And also for the regular Gentoo documentation I will be moving those guides that we cannot maintain ourselves anymore easily towards the wiki.

To support migrations of documents, I created a gxml2wiki.xsl stylesheet. Such a stylesheet can be used, together with tools like xsltproc, to transform GuideXML documents into text output somewhat suitable for the wiki. It isn't perfect (far from it actually) but at least it allows for a more simple migration of documents with minor editing afterwards.

Currently, using it is as simple as invoking it against the GuideXML document you want to transform:

~$ xsltproc gxml2wiki.xsl /path/to/document.xml

The output shown on the screen can then be used as a page. The following things still need to be corrected manually:

• Whitespace is broken, sometimes there are too many newlines. I had to make the decision to put in newlines when needed (which makes too many newlines) rather than a few newlines too few (which makes it more difficult to find where to add in).
• Links need to be double/triple checked, but i'll try to fix that in later editions of the stylesheet
• Commands will have "INTERNAL" in them - you'll need to move the commands themselves into the proper location and only put the necessary output in the pre-tags. This is because the wiki format has more structure than GuideXML in this matter, thus transformations are more difficult to write in this regard.

The stylesheet currently automatically adds in a link towards a Server and security category, but of course you'll need to change that to the proper category for the document you are converting.

Happy documentation hacking!