Add script to fix markdown table formatting

[wanLo]

A Python script that takes XWiki-Markdown 1.2 code and corrects formatting issues within tables by clearing out line breaks that harm the table layout

[marcelklehr]

Looks good.

What happens if I input

|-|-|-|
|foo|

bar after some line breaks|alright|
|bla|bla|bla|

Does this occur at all (cells starting with line breaks)? Probably not that important though 🤷‍♂️

[zonradkuse]

👍

[wanLo]

Does this occur at all (cells starting with line breaks)? Probably not that important though man_shrugging

Thought about counting the occurrences of | in the (non-broken) table header. But taking a closer look, this doesn't happen at all - cell borders and cell content ar always separated with white space. Tables broken to this extend wouldn't be this easy to fix automatically.

[marcelklehr]

So this script will be run on wiki pages that are still in markdown only? How many of those are there? I was under the impression the majority was already converted.

[zonradkuse]

Unfortunately, the contrary is true. Most pages are not converted. Only those which were edited by some member before and probably not even here all were converted.

[marcelklehr]

Ok, so part of the link-migration process is

1. Fix markdown tables
2. Convert everything to xwiki syntax
3. Migrate linked documents

?

[zonradkuse]

We should swap step 2 and 3 in order to make sure nothing weird happens to the links during conversion. But besides that, this is the gameplan.