API page export and revision queries strip newlines from page content in Chrome
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	Feb 21 2013, 4:01 AM

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Author: alj62888

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I'm issuing this request:

?action=query&export=&exportnowrap&titles=SusData:testpage&redirects=

and the content of element <mediawiki><page><revision><text> is all one long line.

I also tried it by getting a revision with the following:

?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&rvlimit=1&titles=SusData:testpage&redirects=&format=xml

Newlines are preserved with format=xmlfm, but, NOT with format=xml. Using xmlfm would require two parsings of the output, one for HTML and a second for XML.

I don't know of a workaround, but would like to know if there is one.

Thanks,
al

Version: 1.20.x
Severity: major
OS: Linux

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Reference: bz45218

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 1:13 AM

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• bzimport created this task.Feb 21 2013, 4:01 AM

New lines are represented by \n

alj62888 wrote:

My apologies, Chrome was removing them; had to view source to see them.

Glad you found out the reason (and thanks for sharing it here for the next person running into the same problem!)

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