On 20.04.2012, 19:38 Andrew wrote:

> If I use 

> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&titles=Lightweight_markup_language&explaintext

> or 

> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&titles=Lightweight_markup_language

> it gets a plain text extract of a page's main content nicely - but
> ignores anything inside tables. Is there a way round that?


Tables are removed because they're often used for stuff unrelated to
article text such as infoboxes and maintenance templates. Indeed, some
tables could be converted to text, but how do we differentiate between
useful and not useful tables?

-- 
Best regards,
  Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])


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