Re: Offline wikipedia using Perl

[wazoox]

This looks nice, but I don't really get how it must be used, I suppose I should check your wikipedia page for the missing parts :)

Just a couple of proposed enhancements :

• as you're using "warnings", there is not point calling "perl -w"
• you don't check for errors when opening files and writing. This is worse than a crime, a fault :)

[toolic]

as you're using "warnings", there is not point calling "perl -w"

There is a difference, from perldoc warnings:

The warnings pragma is a replacement for the command line flag -w , but the pragma is limited to the enclosing block, while the flag is global. See perllexwarn for more information.

-w does everything warnings does, not the other way around. That being said, it is unlikely the OP wants to enable warnings for use'd modules (XML::Parser, etc.).

[grondilu]

Once the database has been built, it is supposed to be used with a CGI script and a local webserver. The CGI script is on the wikipedia page indeed, but it is kind of ugly so I didn't post it here as I am not much proud of it :) A CGI is easy to write anyway. Notice that it requires Text::Mediawiki in order to turn wiki format into HTML.

As for checking errors during file openings and writings, I'll try to correct this.