Module:Plain text
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Documentation for this module may be created at Module:Plain text/doc
1 --converts text with wikilinks to plain text, e.g "[[foo|gah]] is [[bar]]" to "gah is bar"
2 --removes anything enclosed in tags that isn't nested, mediawiki strip markers (references etc), files, italic and bold markup
3 local p = {}
4
5 function p.main(frame)
6 local text = frame.args[1]
7 local encode = require('Module:yesno')(frame.args.encode)
8 return p._main(text, encode)
9 end
10
11 function p._main(text, encode)
12 if not text then return end
13 text = mw.text.killMarkers(text)
14 :gsub(' ', ' ') --replace nbsp spaces with regular spaces
15 :gsub('<br ?/?>', ', ') --replace br with commas
16 :gsub('<span.->(.-)</span>', '%1') --remove spans while keeping text inside
17 :gsub('<i.->(.-)</i>', '%1') --remove italics while keeping text inside
18 :gsub('<b.->(.-)</b>', '%1') --remove bold while keeping text inside
19 :gsub('<em.->(.-)</em>', '%1') --remove emphasis while keeping text inside
20 :gsub('<strong.->(.-)</strong>', '%1') --remove strong while keeping text inside
21 :gsub('<.->.-<.->', '') --strip out remaining tags and the text inside
22 :gsub('<.->', '') --remove any other tag markup
23 :gsub('%[%[%s*[Ff][Ii][Ll][Ee]%s*:.-%]%]', '') --strip out files
24 :gsub('%[%[%s*[Ii][Mm][Aa][Gg][Ee]%s*:.-%]%]', '') --strip out use of image:
25 :gsub('%[%[%s*[Cc][Aa][Tt][Ee][Gg][Oo][Rr][Yy]%s*:.-%]%]', '') --strip out categories
26 :gsub('%[%[[^%]]-|', '') --strip out piped link text
27 :gsub('([^%[])%[[^%[%]][^%]]-%s', '%1') --strip out external link text
28 :gsub('^%[[^%[%]][^%]]-%s', '') --strip out external link text
29 :gsub('[%[%]]', '') --then strip out remaining [ and ]
30 :gsub("'''''", "") --strip out bold italic markup
31 :gsub("'''?", "") --not stripping out '''' gives correct output for bolded text in quotes
32 :gsub('----+', '') --remove ---- lines
33 :gsub("^%s+", "") --strip leading
34 :gsub("%s+$", "") --and trailing spaces
35 :gsub("%s+", " ") --strip redundant spaces
36 if encode then
37 return mw.text.encode(text)
38 else
39 return text
40 end
41 end
42
43 return p