wikidot-normalize

Simple library to provide Wikidot-compatible string normalization. It attempts to be a Rust port of the functionality in WDStringUtils::toUnixName.

Wikidot normal form is used in the site's page names. Essentially it ensures the following:

• All ASCII is lowercase.
• All characters outside of :, a-z, 0-9, or - are replaced with dashes.
• Underscores are only permitted as the first character.
• Any leading or trailing dashes are removed.
• Any set of multiple dashes are replaced with a single dash.
• Any set of multiple colons are replaced with a single colon.

Examples:

• "Big Cheese Horace" -> "big-cheese-horace"
• "bottom--Text" -> "bottom-text"
• "Tufto's Proposal" -> "tufto-s-proposal"
• "-test-" -> "test"

This library is getting close to finalization with a v1.0.0 release.

Available under the terms of the MIT License. See LICENSE.md.

Compilation

This library targets the latest stable Rust. At time of writing, that is 1.48.0

sh $ cargo build --release

Testing

sh $ cargo test

Add -- --nocapture to the end if you want to see test output.