2010/5/11 don undeen donundeen@yahoo.com:
ah, so it's implemented in the core code? I'm doing this work on my own wikis, so I can update my own wikis codebase to support this, perhaps. what version of MW is this implemented on?
Only on the trunk SVN version so far.
barring that approach, I saw some references to obtaining an xml rendering of an entire page. Is that right? If I could get an xml representation of a rendered page, where each section is noted in the xml somehow, I could then extract the relevent section, with just the additional overhead of pulling the whole page.
However, my efforts to specify the generatexml parameter failed.
You can work around this by grabbing the raw wikitext of the section using action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&rvsection=3 , then passing the resulting wikitext to action=parse&text=WikitextHere . In trunk, action=parse has a section parameter than can be used in conjunction with the page parameter to cut out the middle man.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)