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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <paraminfo>
    <modules>
      <module classname="ApiParse" description="This module parses wikitext and returns parser output" version="ApiParse: $Id: ApiParse.php 69932 2010-07-26 08:03:21Z tstarling $" 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="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" type="string" default="" />
          <param name="prop" description="Which pieces of information to get.&#10;NOTE: Section tree is only generated if there are more than 4 sections, or if the __TOC__ keyword is present" default="text|langlinks|categories|links|templates|images|externallinks|sections|revid|displaytitle" multi="" limit="50">
            <type>
              <t>text</t>
              <t>langlinks</t>
              <t>categories</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>
            </type>
          </param>
          <param name="pst" description="Do a pre-save transform on the input before parsing it.&#10;Ignored if page or oldid is used." type="bool" default="false" />
          <param name="onlypst" description="Do a PST on the input, but don&#039;t parse it.&#10;Returns PSTed wikitext. Ignored if page or oldid is used." 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" />
        </errors>
      </module>
    </modules>
    <querymodules>
      <module name="allpages%7Csiteinfo" missing="" />
    </querymodules>
  </paraminfo>
</api>