Re: [Semediawiki-user] Exporting Pages by Namespace

[S P. <in...@sk...>]

Folger, Deborah H wrote:
> In the Special:Export page you can add pages from a Category.
> I would like to add pages from a Namespace.
> Please consider adding this function.

That's an enhancement to MediaWiki, not the Semantic MediaWiki extension 
of it.  You can join mediawiki-l mailing list to make the same request 
(see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Communication ), and/or file it in 
the bugbase at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ that SMW also uses.

Since the add feature simply populates Special:Export's textarea, you 
might be able to run a query on another page to get all pages in a 
namespace and past them in.  E.g.
   <ask format=table link=none>[[Help:+]]</ask>


You could also take advantage of the regularity of the XML output from 
Special:Export to grab only certain namespaces.  In perl, something like:

#!/bin/perl
undef $/; # slurp whole file;
$file = <>;
@pages = split(/<page>/, $file);
for (@pages) {
	print "<page>\n$_" if (m/<title>(User|Help):/s)
};

will only print the <page> tags that contain User: or Help: pages.   You 
still have to surround with the mediawiki and siteinfo tags.

It would probably be easier to do this kind of XML grep as a transform 
in XSL with an XPath, but I've forgotten XSL.

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