----- Original Message ----- From: "Brion Vibber" brion@pobox.com To: "Wikimedia developers" wikitech-l@wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Parsing database dumps Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:50:07 -0700
Those particular page titles are in the main (article) namespace, which has no prefix:
<namespace key="0" />[snip]
<title>AaA</title>[snip]
<title>AlgeriA</title>
OK, thanks, that makes sense. I nearly made a leap to that assumption but then thought I'd better not without really understanding. So are you saying that if there's no colon in the title it's safe the assume that they go in namespace 0. And if there is a colon then I need to parse to see if text before a colon matches a namespace, and if it doesn't then the colon is just part of the article title ?
Mike O