Hi<br><br>I&#39;ve been trying to use the API to get output into YAML format for processing in Ruby. Seems (see <a href="http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12120">http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12120</a> ) that the API&#39;s YAML output is broken, as it does not escape quotes, colons followed by spaces etc. This causes output like<br>
<br>title: Job: A Comedy of Justice<br><br>when getting the Wikipedia page with that title; due to the unescaped second colon followed by space, Ruby&#39;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 &quot;: &quot; in titles or other fields.<br>
<br>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&#39;t nearly as easy/clean as YAML), or on a time horizon for a fix/update?<br><br>Any help or suggestions are appreciated,<br>
thanks,<br><br>Loek Cleophas<br>