[Mediawiki-api] Broken YAML output?

[Eddie Roger]

I am working on a Ruby client for the MediaWiki API and was having that same
problem for a long time. I'm not good enough with YAML to have fixed it, so
I switched to XML. I recall the problem having to do with YAML formatting as
opposed to the content of the message, so you may have found a second bug.
There is a class of the API dedicated to YAML formatting, so you can look
through it for a place to clean output (if you're comfortable with PHP).

Briefly on XML- I have found that it wasn't so bad to switch from YAML to
XML. I know that YAML is attactive for how simple it is, but really XML
isn't so bad either. My two cents.

-Eddie

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 9:55 AM, L. Cleophas <mdwkapi at loekcleophas.com>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> I've been trying to use the API to get output into YAML format for
> processing in Ruby. Seems (see
> http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12120 ) that the API's YAML
> output is broken, as it does not escape quotes, colons followed by spaces
> etc. This causes output like
>
> title: Job: A Comedy of Justice
>
> when getting the Wikipedia page with that title; due to the unescaped
> second colon followed by space, Ruby's YAML.load chokes on this. Seems to
> me that this basically means that YAML output is not usable for getting data
> from wikipedia, quite a few of whose articles use ": " in titles or other
> fields.
>
> Any thoughts on how to circumvent this (without using XML as format; I
> know I can parse this from Ruby using REXML, but it ain't nearly as
> easy/clean as YAML), or on a time horizon for a fix/update?
>
> Any help or suggestions are appreciated,
> thanks,
>
> Loek Cleophas
>
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-- 
- Eddie

Eddie Roger | eddieroger at gmail.com | eddieroger.com
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