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Hi everyone,

I am currently trying to add a federated search from MS Sharepoint to MediaWiki (newest version) through its OpenSearch-Interface.

MediaWiki 1.17.0 PHP 5.3.3-7+squeeze1 (apache2handler) MySQL 5.1.49-3

I am using an url like ..../api.php?action=opensearch&search=api&limit=2&namespace=0&format=xmlfm but it always returns JSON (though with results) on our MediaWiki-installation. At Wikipedia e.g. it returns XML as it should.

Maybe someone can point me in the right direction, I looked at the config parameters, but cannot figure out what to do.

Thanks for your help,

Kind regards,

MMF

I believe that's something new in 1.18. You can try using the http://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srsearch=api&srnamespace=0&srlimit=2 style queries though, which support xml in 1.17.

Thanks for the feedback. We actually made it work by installing the OpenSearchXML-extension Extension:OpenSearchXml but sadly it's not usable as a federated search provider.

Hm.. doesn't look like 1.18 has it, not even 1.19.

Wikipedia actually has Extension:OpenSearchXml installed as well (w:Special:Version)

• en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search=test&format=xmlfm

Formats other than json/xml don't work.

Yes, that's the one. Unfortunately it does not return an Atom / RSS - feed like an OpenSearch-query should.

Many thanks for the answers, really appreciated :)

Kind regards,

MMF

Whoops, sorry about mixing up the extension and version changes and giving wrong info :S