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(a)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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