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The XML document returned by Wikipedia API is not well formed. For example the XML document returned by the below url is not well formed.
The value of the attribute name in ref tag is not surrounded by quotes. ( <ref name=Veruggio2002> )
Can anyone suggest me of getting valid xml pages given the article ids?
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This part of the returned content is not XML but wikitext (look at contentformat="text/x-wiki" on the surrounding tag), which is not as strict as XML (actually, almost any input is valid, even if not necessarily meaningful). It is properly escaped and should be parsed by any compliant XML parser as a text node.
There is no official XML representation of wikitext, but you may be interested in Parsoid’s output HTML or by parsers like mwparserfromhell for automated tasks involving wikitext.
