Hi Platonides,

Thanks so much for your reply. 

That makes a lot more sense - unfortunately,  I can't seem to find section names as elements in the xml schema (https://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.10.xsd). Do you have any recommendations for parsing the intro section out of the xml dumps? Trying to avoid parsing html or querying the api because I have Cloud9's wiki xml reader for processing the xml dumps in spark. 

Thanks again,
Dan

On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 1:00 PM Platonides <platonides@gmail.com> wrote:
That \1\2 are literal bytes. You would do:

$regexp = '/^(.*?)(?=\x01\x02)/s';

But those bytes are not present in the original wikitext, they are set
by ExtractFormatter
                        $html = preg_replace( '/\s*(<h([1-6])\b)/i',
                                        "\n\n" . self::SECTION_MARKER_START . '$2' .
self::SECTION_MARKER_END . '$1',
                                        $html);

Best regards


PS: These are section names, not edit summaries.

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