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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <paraminfo>
    <modules>
      <module classname="ApiParse" description="This module parses wikitext and returns parser output" examples="api.php?action=parse&amp;text={{Project:Sandbox}}" version="ApiParse: $Id: ApiParse.php 89672 2011-06-07 18:45:20Z catrope $" prefix="" readrights="" name="parse">
        <parameters>
          <param name="title" description="Title of page the text belongs to" default="API" />
          <param name="text" description="Wikitext to parse" type="string" default="" />
          <param name="summary" description="Summary to parse" type="string" default="" />
          <param name="page" description="Parse the content of this page. Cannot be used together with text and title" type="string" default="" />
          <param name="pageid" description="Parse the content of this page. Overrides page" type="string" default="" />
          <param name="redirects" description="If the page parameter is set to a redirect, resolve it" type="bool" default="false" />
          <param name="oldid" description="Parse the content of this revision. Overrides page and pageid" type="string" default="" />
          <param name="prop" description="Which pieces of information to get&#10; text           - Gives the parsed text of the wikitext&#10; langlinks      - Gives the langlinks the parsed wikitext&#10; categories     - Gives the categories of the parsed wikitext&#10; categorieshtml - Gives the html version of the categories&#10; languageshtml  - Gives the html version of the languagelinks&#10; links          - Gives the internal links in the parsed wikitext&#10; templates      - Gives the templates in the parsed wikitext&#10; images         - Gives the images in the parsed wikitext&#10; externallinks  - Gives the external links in the parsed wikitext&#10; sections       - Gives the sections in the parsed wikitext&#10; revid          - Adds the revision id of the parsed page&#10; displaytitle   - Adds the title of the parsed wikitext&#10; headitems      - Gives items to put in the &lt;head&gt; of the page&#10; headhtml       - Gives parsed &lt;head&gt; of the page&#10; iwlinks        - Gives interwiki links in the parsed wikitext&#10; wikitext       - Gives the original wikitext that was parsed" default="text|langlinks|categories|links|templates|images|externallinks|sections|revid|displaytitle" multi="" limit="50">
            <type>
              <t>text</t>
              <t>langlinks</t>
              <t>languageshtml</t>
              <t>categories</t>
              <t>categorieshtml</t>
              <t>links</t>
              <t>templates</t>
              <t>images</t>
              <t>externallinks</t>
              <t>sections</t>
              <t>revid</t>
              <t>displaytitle</t>
              <t>headitems</t>
              <t>headhtml</t>
              <t>iwlinks</t>
              <t>wikitext</t>
            </type>
          </param>
          <param name="pst" description="Do a pre-save transform on the input before parsing it&#10;Ignored if page, pageid or oldid is used" type="bool" default="false" />
          <param name="onlypst" description="Do a pre-save transform (PST) on the input, but don&#039;t parse it&#10;Returns the same wikitext, after a PST has been applied. Ignored if page, pageid or oldid is used" type="bool" default="false" />
          <param name="uselang" description="Which language to parse the request in" type="string" default="" />
          <param name="section" description="Only retrieve the content of this section number" type="string" default="" />
          <param name="disablepp" description="Disable the PP Report from the parser output" type="bool" default="false" />
        </parameters>
        <errors>
          <error code="readapidenied" info="You need read permission to use this module" />
          <error code="params" info="The page parameter cannot be used together with the text and title parameters" />
          <error code="missingrev" info="There is no revision ID oldid" />
          <error code="permissiondenied" info="You don&#039;t have permission to view deleted revisions" />
          <error code="missingtitle" info="The page you specified doesn&#039;t exist" />
          <error code="nosuchsection" info="There is no section sectionnumber in page" />
          <error code="nosuchpageid" info="There is no page with ID $1" />
        </errors>
      </module>
    </modules>
    <querymodules>
      <module name="allpages%7csiteinfo" missing="" />
    </querymodules>
  </paraminfo>
</api>