#!/usr/bin/python # Extracts plain text from articles converted into "XML" using wiki2xml_all. # # Evan Jones # April, 2008 # Released under a BSD licence. # http://evanjones.ca/software/wikipedia2text.html import os import sys import wikisoup def findXMLIterator(path): """Iterates over all .xml files in path.""" for file in os.listdir(path): fullpath = os.path.join(path, file) if os.path.isdir(fullpath): for i in findXMLIterator(fullpath): yield i elif fullpath.endswith(".xml"): yield fullpath output = open(sys.argv[2], "w") # Extract the words from all the files in the subdirectories for xmlfile in findXMLIterator(sys.argv[1]): try: output.write(wikisoup.extractWikipediaText(xmlfile).encode("UTF-8")) except: print xmlfile