"Roan Kattouw" roan.kattouw@home.nl wrote:

Rainer Terhart schreef:

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Hello,

i don not know, if i am right here, but i got a strange parse-response from wikiparser today.

Maybe one can have a look on it. (i am from germany and i used wikis api.php for parsing the entry("Baum"); here is the request i used: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&prop=text&format=xml&...

this should be the last parsed text: "<p><span id="interwiki-he-fa" class="FA"></span></p>"

actually, api.php adds more text at the end of the response.

<p><a href="/w/index.php?title=Af:Boom&....................class="new" title="Zh-yue:&#27193; (Seite nicht vorhanden)">zh-yue:&#27193;</a></p>

Strangely, this works for me. I just clicked the link and got an HTML response ending in

<p><span id="interwiki-he-fa" class="FA"></span></p>

<!-- NewPP limit report Preprocessor node count: 221/1000000 Post-expand include size: 1819/2048000 bytes Template argument size: 278/2048000 bytes Expensive parser function count: 0/500 -->

<!-- Saved in stable version parser cache with key dewiki:stable-pcache:idhash:11447-0!1!0!!de!2 and timestamp 20081023205212 -->

<!-- Saved in parser cache with key dewiki:pcache:idhash:11447-0!1!0!!de!2 and timestamp 20081023205212 -->

What you see when you click the OP's link http://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&prop=text&format=xml&... probably depends on what browser you are using, because of differences in how browsers react to "format=xml". When I click the link I get the same text reported by the OP; however, this is also the same thing you will see if you go to http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baum and select "View Source" or the equivalent in your web browser.

That page has a lot of improperly formatted interwiki links at the end of the text. (I would go in and fix them, but then this thread wouldn't make sense to anyone....)

Russ