I've migrated my company's Perspective wiki to dokuwiki. The Perspective wiki had dozens of collections and editors and attachments and hundreds of pages, and the importing script worked reasonably well. Perspective is a Windows hosted wiki, so this is a Windows Python script. (The path separators are hardcoded.)

ToDo:

• This script creates an “imported.log” file with the same format as “changes.log” But it can't be merged into changes.log as is. Andreas points out that, “The ID and the lastmod timestamp needs to match. So first create the file then get it's timestamp and save that one to the changelog.”

• I found that the script was saving pages that originally had spaces in the name without spaces. The dokuwiki behavior is to save with an underscore in place of each space. To fix this replace this code:

  name = GetNode(fields, "name", "page.name").firstChild.data
  doku_namespace = ""
  doku_name = ""
  if name.find(":") != -1:
     doku_namespace, doku_name = name.split(":")
     doku_namespace = "\\" + doku_namespace
  else:
     doku_name = name

  with this code:

  doku_namespace = ""
  doku_name = ""
  doku_namespace = "\\" + GetNode(fields, "name", "page.collection").firstChild.data
  doku_name = GetNode(fields, "name", "page.display-name").firstChild.data

  This will also allow you to search for a full page name with spaces in the search term instead of only being able to find the page by searching for the full name without spaces or one word from the page title.

• Found that the BOM messes up the conversion, and then a few more characters in my ten-year-old PerspectiveWiki weren't liked either, so added to ParsePage:

              s = s.replace(u'\ufeff',"")
              s = s.replace(u'\uf06c',"o")
              s = s.replace(u'\xad', "<<")
              s = s.replace(u'\xae', ">>")
              s = s.replace(u'\xa7', " degrees ")
              s = s.replace(u'\xe0', "-")
              s = s.replace(u'\xef', "i")

Requirements:

• Python v2
• Windows Share access to the source and destination wikis.

Note: After running this script, run the indexer.php script in dokuwiki\bin. This will vastly improve the search functionality.

# ConvertPerspectiveToDokuwiki
# By: David Blume
#
# This was a quick hack, but it works reasonably well.
 
import sys
import os
import time
from xml.dom import minidom
 
doku_dir = ""
 
def CopyAttachments(attachments, path, doku_page, doku_namespace):
    for attachment in attachments.childNodes:
        if attachment.nodeName == u'attachment':
            version = attachment.getElementsByTagName("version")[0].firstChild.data
            name = attachment.getElementsByTagName("name")[0].firstChild.data
            doku_name = name.lower().replace(" ", "_")
            doku_media_path = doku_dir + "\\media" + doku_namespace
            if not os.path.exists(doku_media_path):
                os.mkdir(doku_media_path)
            os.popen4("copy \"" + path + "\\" + version + "-attachments\\" + name + "\" \"" + doku_media_path + "\\" + doku_name + "\"")
            if len(doku_namespace):
                name = doku_namespace[1:] + ":" + name
            if name not in attached_images:
                doku_page.write("\nAutomatically Attached : {{" + name + "}}\n")
 
doku_list_types = []
attached_images = []
changes_log = None
 
def ParsePage(node, doku_page, doku_namespace, doku_name):
    global doku_list_types
    global attached_images
    if node.nodeType == minidom.Node.TEXT_NODE:
        s = node.nodeValue.lstrip()
        if s:
            s = s.replace("&", "&")
            s = s.replace("&lt;", "<")
            s = s.replace("&gt;", ">")
            s = s.replace(u'\u201c', "\"")
            s = s.replace(u'\u201d', "\"")
            s = s.replace(u'\xb4', "'")
            s = s.replace(u'\u2019', "'")
            s = s.replace(u'\u2013', "-")
            s = s.replace(u'\u2022', ".")
            s = s.replace(u'\u2026', "...")
            s = s.replace(u'\u2018', "'")
            s = s.replace(u'\xb7', "*")
            s = s.replace("**", "<nowiki>**</nowiki>")
            doku_page.write(s)
        return
 
    node_name = node.nodeName
 
    if node_name == u'img':
        src = node.getAttribute("src")
        src_name = src[src.find("name=") + 5:]
        if len(doku_namespace):
            src_name = doku_namespace[1:] + ":" + src_name
        doku_page.write("{{" + src_name + "}}")
        attached_images.append(src_name)
        return
 
    if node_name == u'link':
        link_dest = node.getElementsByTagName("name")[0].firstChild.data
        if link_dest[0] == ':' and len(doku_namespace):
            link_dest = link_dest[1:]
        doku_page.write("[[" + link_dest + "|" + node.getElementsByTagName("anchor")[0].firstChild.data + "]]")
        return
 
    doku_list_pop = False
    bold = False
    italics = False
    underline = False
    anchor = False
    preformatted = False
    line_item = False
    header = ""
 
    if node_name == u'a':
        doku_page.write("[[" + node.getAttribute("href") + "|")
        anchor = True
 
    if node_name == u'ol':
        doku_list_types += "o"
        doku_list_pop = True
 
    if node_name == u'ul':
        doku_list_types += "u"
        doku_list_pop = True
 
    if node_name == u'li':
        doku_page.write("  " * len(doku_list_types))
        doku_page.write(doku_list_types[-1] == 'u' and "* " or "- ")
        line_item = True
 
    # What about tables?  How are they done?
 
    if node_name == u'h1':
        header = "======"
        doku_page.write(header + " ")
    if node_name == u'h2':
        header = "====="
        doku_page.write(header + " ")
    if node_name == u'h3':
        header = "===="
        doku_page.write(header + " ")
    if node_name == u'h4':
        header = "==="
        doku_page.write(header + " ")
    if node_name == u'h5':
        header = "=="
        doku_page.write(header + " ")
 
    if node_name == u'span':
        style = node.getAttribute("style")
        if style:
            if style.find("font-weight:bold;") != -1:
                doku_page.write("**")
                bold = True
            if style.find("text-decoration:underline;") != -1:
                doku_page.write("__")
                underline = True
            if style.find("font-style:italic;") != -1:
                doku_page.write("//")
                italics = True
 
    if node_name == u'div':
        style = node.getAttribute("style")
        if style:
            if style.find("margin-left:40px;") != -1:
                # Maybe one day we'll support indentation
                pass
 
    if node_name == u'pre':
        doku_page.write("''")
        preformatted = True
 
    for subnode in node.childNodes:
        ParsePage(subnode, doku_page, doku_namespace, doku_name)
 
    if preformatted:
        doku_page.write("''")
    if italics:
        doku_page.write("//")
    if underline:
        doku_page.write("__")
    if bold:
        doku_page.write("**")
    if doku_list_pop:
        doku_list_types.pop()
        doku_page.write("\n")
    if len(header):
        doku_page.write(" " + header + "\n")
    if anchor:
        doku_page.write("]]")
    if line_item:
        doku_page.write("\n")
    if node_name == u'p' and len(doku_list_types) == 0:
        doku_page.write("\n\n")
    if (node_name == u'br' or node_name == u'div') and len(doku_list_types) == 0:
        doku_page.write("\\\\ \n")
 
def GetNode(nodes, attribute, name):
    for n in nodes:
        if n.getAttribute(attribute) == name:
            return n        
 
def Walk(path):
    global changes_log
    global attached_images
    for filename in os.listdir(path):
        fullpath = path + "\\" + filename
 
        if os.path.isdir(fullpath):
            if filename.endswith(".page"):
                # Parse this page
                # Get the revision from "latest.txt"
                print "Parsing " + fullpath + "..."
                version = -1
                try:
                    version = file(fullpath + "\\latest.txt", "r").read().strip()
                except:
                    print "WARNING: " + filename + " does not have a latest version."
                    continue
                source = minidom.parse(fullpath + "\\versions\\" + version + ".xml")
                assert source.documentElement.tagName == "page-data"
                fields = source.documentElement.getElementsByTagName("field")
                name = GetNode(fields, "name", "page.name").firstChild.data
                doku_namespace = ""
                doku_name = ""
                if name.find(":") != -1:
                    doku_namespace, doku_name = name.split(":")
                    doku_namespace = "\\" + doku_namespace
                else:
                    doku_name = name
                doku_namespace = doku_namespace.lower().replace(" ", "_")
                doku_name = doku_name.lower().replace(" ", "_")
                if not os.path.isdir(doku_dir + "\\pages" + doku_namespace):
                    os.mkdir(doku_dir + "\\pages" + doku_namespace)
                doku_page = file(doku_dir + "\\pages" + doku_namespace + "\\" + doku_name + ".txt", 'w')
                user = GetNode(fields, "name", "page.last-edit-username").firstChild.data.lower()
                date = GetNode(fields, "name", "page.last-edit-server-time").firstChild.data
                date = str(int(time.mktime(time.strptime(date, '%d/%b/%y %H:%M:%S'))))
                page = GetNode(fields, "name", "page.contents")
                attached_images = []
                ParsePage(page, doku_page, doku_namespace, doku_name)
                attachments = GetNode(fields, "name", "page.attachments")
                if attachments:
                    CopyAttachments(attachments, fullpath + "\\versions", doku_page, doku_namespace)
                doku_page.close()            
                source.unlink()
                changes_log.write("\t".join([date, "127.0.0.1", doku_namespace[1:] + ":" + doku_name, user[user.find(":")+1:], "imported"]) + '\n')
            else:
                Walk(fullpath)
 
def main(args):
    source_dir = ""
    global doku_dir
    global changes_log
    if len(args) == 2:
        source_dir = args[0]
        doku_dir = args[1] 
        doku_dir += "\\data"
        changes_log = file(doku_dir + "\\imported.log", 'wb')
        Walk(source_dir)
        changes_log.close()
    print "Finished parsing " + source_dir
 
if __name__=='__main__':
    if len(sys.argv) == 3:
        main(sys.argv[1:])
    else:
        print "usage: " + sys.argv[0] + " perspective_dir dokuwiki_dir"
        print "Where the perspective_dir contains the .col (collection) directories, and"
        print "the dokuwiki_dir contains the dokuwiki's data directory as a child directory."