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Bug 27630 - action=parse&pageid=n seems to not be parsing correctly in some cases


Summary:	action=parse&pageid=n seems to not be parsing correctly in some cases

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Product:	MediaWiki
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	API (Other open bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Normal major (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Roan Kattouw

URL:	http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?act...
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Reported:	2011-02-22 11:57 UTC by tristen
Modified:	2012-04-16 09:16 UTC (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Description tristen 2011-02-22 11:57:15 UTC

This URL:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&pageid=3209758

yields a page with a snippet of html looking like this:

&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;<a href="http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php?pagename=St_James_Old_Cathedral&amp;amp;amp;params=37_42_26_S_144_56_17.9_E_&amp;quot;">http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php?pagename=St_James_Old_Cathedral&amp;amp;amp;params=37_42_26_S_144_56_17.9_E_&amp;quot;</a> class=&amp;quot;external text&amp;quot; rel=&amp;quot;nofollow&amp;quot;&amp;gt;

which winds up looking somewhat like this:

<a href="<a href="http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php?pagename=St_James_Old_Cathedral&params=37_42_26_S_144_56_17.9_E_"">http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php?pagename=St_James_Old_Cathedral&params=37_42_26_S_144_56_17.9_E_"</a> class="external text" rel="nofollow">

you can reproduce it quite easily with the url:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&pageid=3209758

and by viewing the source on the original page helps see how the html should look:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_James_Old_Cathedral

sorry in advance in case i've made a mistake and i'm not interpreting the html correctly.

sorry in advance also if major is an exaggeration of the severity!

best regards and thank you for the API.

tristen

Comment 1 Sam Reed (reedy) 2011-02-22 13:20:41 UTC

To me that looks perfectly sane, and correct...

What do you think is wrong?

Comment 2 Roan Kattouw 2011-02-22 13:27:03 UTC

I'm getting this:

&lt;a href=&quot;http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php?pagename=St_James_Old_Cathedral&amp;amp;params=37_42_26_S_144_56_17.9_E_&quot; class=&quot;external text&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; which looks good to me. If the API would output what you said it did, that'd be wrong.

What did you use for the &format= parameter?

Comment 3 tristen 2011-02-22 14:20:40 UTC

i didn't use a format= parameter, therefore i suppose it was using the default of xmlfm. when i explicitly use format=xml it appears ok.

that's a solution, i'm happy with that! sorry to take your time.

Comment 4 Sam Reed (reedy) 2011-02-22 14:31:56 UTC

The fm means html pretty printing for all of them...

And it is default

Comment 5 Roan Kattouw 2011-02-22 19:24:18 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> The fm means html pretty printing for all of them...
> 
> And it is default
To clarify: the default format is xmlfm, which is XML with HTML pretty-printing. It's designed to be human-readable, not necessarily machine-readable. For actual XML, use format=xml

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