Ben Humphreys

Print Wiki Parse Tree with `mwlib`

It’s hard to see how mwlib treats Wiki markup. You can use this small snippet to output the tree of an article and see what you’re dealing with. It’s recursive so if you have a Huge document it’s possible you’ll get some problems, although I haven’t hit any yet.

Output is something like:

Section
  Node
    Text
  Node
    Paragraph
      Text
    Paragraph
      Style
        Node
          Node
            ArticleLink
            Text
            ArticleLink
            Text
...

There’s probably a function within mwlib for doing this, but I couldn’t find it.