Extension:ActiveAbstract

Purpose
This extension is used by the XML Dumps to pull a formatted copy of an articles initial text and its organizational structure. It is one of the filters available for the backup system.

It will pull the first two sentences of the article along with each section heading and wrap them in xml tags and will trim the entry to be no longer then 1024.

Parameters

 * namespace - the backups only pull from the NS_MAIN namespace
 * noredirects - don't follow redirects
 * abstracts -- ?
 * variants - supports possible language variants like zh-cn

Formatting
The required tags for each entry are:


 * doc
 * title
 * url
 * abstract
 * links
 * sublink

Example Listing
Wikipedia: An American in Paris http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_in_Paris An American in Paris is a symphonic composition by American composer George Gershwin, composed in 1928. Inspired .. Instrumentation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_in_Paris#Instrumentation Recordings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_in_Paris#Recordings Film http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_in_Paris#Film

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