Hello,

I am writing a Java program to extract the abstract of the wikipedia page
given the title of the wikipedia page. I have done some research and found
out that the abstract with be in rvsection=0

 So for example if I want the abstract of 'Eiffel Tower" wiki page then I am
querying using the api in the following way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Eiffel%20Tower&rvprop=content&rvsection=0

and parse the XML data which we get and take the wikitext in the tag <rev
xml:space="preserve">  which represents the abstract of the wikipedia page.
But this wiki text also contains the infobox data which I do not need. I
would like to know if there is anyway in which I can remove the infobox data
and get only the wikitext related to the page's abstract Or if there is any
alternative method by which I can get the abstract of the page directly.

Looking forward to your help.

Thanks in Advance
Aditya Uppu
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