API talk:Parsing wikitext

Minor issues with expandtemplates
Hi,

I just want to report two issues with expandtemplates :
 * expandtemplates seems to work for only one level of templates (templates inside templates are not expanded)
 * expandtemplates doesn't take into account &lt;includeonly&gt; or &lt;noinclude&gt;

For example, on the French Wikipedia, expandtemplates for   gives


 * Possibly you should report this to http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/, so the issues can be properly tracked and fixed. -- Tbleher 10:16, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, done. There's the same problem for Special:ExpandTemplates. --NicoV 14:54, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Seems to be fixed --NicoV 17:54, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

error with parse...
i am getting the following return...  

my query string looks like this... /api.php?action=parse&page=Houdini

i am using mw 1.15.1 i get nothing of value from the mw debug log and i have verified that my rewrite rules are not adding the title parameter. any thoughts? 67.97.209.36 14:25, 18 November 2009 (UTC)


 * if i change my query string to this...
 * /api.php?action=parse&text=
 * i get the expected result.
 * 67.97.209.36 16:46, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

I'm seeing the same problems. I think we should write it up as a bug. --Duke33 01:58, 14 January 2010 (UTC)


 * I took the liberty of writing it up:22684 --Duke33 17:16, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Parsing into printable text ?
Hi,

Is there a way to parse a wiki text to get a simplified text (without HTML, external and internal replaced by their text, ...) ?

My need is the following :
 * The project Check Wikipedia uses a configuration file for each wiki (for example: en)
 * It's used among other things to generate pages in Wiki format (for example: en)
 * In the configuration file, you can see for example a description of error n°1: error_001_desc_script= This article has no bold title like &lt;nowiki&gt;Title&lt;/nowiki&gt; , so it contains Wiki text.
 * I am writing a Java program (WikiCleaner) to help fixing the errors reported by this tool. I'd like to display this text in my program as a simple text: '' This article has no bold title like Title.

Thanks, NicoV --16:33, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Error with DPL
DPL and DPL in templates are not expanded. e.g. these fail Hamishwillee 00:02, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
 * api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=yourtitle&rvprop=content&rvexpandtemplates
 * api.php?action=expandtemplates&text=

Simple template output wrapped in paragraph tags
Suppose I have Template:Foo, which contains this wikitext: This calls the hello world template:.

Template:Hello world contains this text: Hello, world!

I would expect the text output to look like this: This calls the hello world template: Hello, world!

This is my API call: http://example.com/w/api.php?action=parse&pst=1&disablepp=1&format=json&redirects=1&text=%7B%7BFoo%7D%7D

The problem
The json returned wraps the output in paragraph tags for some reason, which I don't want.


 * Templates that contain tables do not wrap their output in paragraph tags.
 * When the templates are used on a normal wiki page, no such paragraph tag wrapping occurs