Fundamentally lazy, I always try to minimize my efforts to get work done...even when editing homepages. So when I rewrote my homepage back in 2010, I didn't want to fiddle with ApacheForrest XML the whole day. Instead, inspired by WiKo (the Wiki Compiler I hacked together this little script.
It's not pretty, nor complete...but it did a good job in keeping me concentrated on creating simple pages for this website (or for Docbook XML).
Current version
The sources for this tool are now available at github. Please visit https://github.com/dirkbaechle/xmlwiko for downloading the latest version.
Usage
Simply start the script as:
python xmlwiko.py
and it will traverse the current directory. Whenever it finds a .wiki file it converts it into an XML file, conforming to the ApacheForrest DTD.