On 8/12/13, Daniel Barrett <danb(a)vistaprint.com> wrote:
The MediaWiki API seems to add paragraph tags when it
parses wikitext, but
only sometimes. Example:
http://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=Extension:Header/v…
This page (Extension:Header/version) contains only the text "1.0" but gets
turned into "<p>1.0</p>" when parsed via API. On the other hand,
the <p>
tag is absent if you transclude {{Extension:Header/version}} into another
wiki article.
This doesn't happen if your wiki page contains just a table, so something
tricky is going on here. :-)
Is there a way to make api.php suppress the <p> tag in my first example?
Thanks,
DanB
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If you just have the text "1.0" in the page, then that text is part of
a paragraph. If you transclude the text to a middle of another page,
then it might not be in the context of a paragraph (or be in the
middle of one already begun). If its the first thing transcluded, you
still get the <p>'s. If your article starts with a table, a table is a
block element, and not text, so no paragraph.
Basically, random text by itself forms a paragraph, so it gets marked with a <p>
You can't really disable that. Certain places in mediawiki core regex
out the "<p>" in places where it doesn't make sense (like
Message::parse).
--bawolff