Ok, sorry, I spoke too soon. Yes, it formatted properly but it seems that the "export" parameter only exports the most recent revision and if I add the revision property to ask for more than one, it defaults back to the other format. :-\ So I'm still not able to get the whole edit history of one page in the special:export format. leSigh.
Andrea
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Andrea Forte andrea.forte@gmail.com wrote:
Yep, that did it, thanks! (I never tried including both export and exportnowrap, just one or the other and it was defining things like revisionids as element attributes instead of children.)
Andrea
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Andrea Forte andrea.forte@gmail.com wrote:
I'm trying to download the complete revision history for just a few pages. The options, as I see it, are using the API or special:export. The API returns XML that is formatted differently than special:export and I already have a set of parsers that work with special:export data so I'm inclined to go with that.
You can use api.php?action=query&export&exportnowrap&titles=Foo|Bar|Baz , that should give you the same format.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
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