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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. 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. Ignored if page or oldid is used." type="bool" default="false" />
<param name="onlypst" description="Do a PST on the input, but don't parse it. 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't have permission to view deleted revisions" />
<error code="missingtitle" info="The page you specified doesn't exist" />
</errors>
</module>
</modules>
<querymodules>
<module name="allpages%7Csiteinfo" missing="" />
</querymodules>
</paraminfo>
</api>