Thread:Project:Support desk/Help with template, please!/reply (6)

The api can be used to parse wikitext, so you get an idea of what a page will look like without saving.

For example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&text=&title=192.13.2.1&pst&format=xmlfm

Show's you the result of what on the page 192.13.2.1 would like, with doing pst.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&text=&title=192.13.2.1&format=xmlfm

Show's you without pst. Without pst (pre-save-transform) is kind of like what it'd look like when included from a template (Esp for subst:), except that behaves as if it was directly on the page