Extracting data from Wikipedia JSON or XML with PHP

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Published on 2010-05-29T21:25:16Z Indexed on 2010/05/29 21:32 UTC
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I want to use PHP (possibly with Curl/XPath?) to extract data from Wikipedia pages. What would be the best way to go about this? I'll be using CakePHP for this project, although just need to figure out how to get this working first.

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