1) Is there a way to tell the Parser that you don't want the initial DOM
element wrapped in paragraph tags? (For example, if you are client-side
injecting the mw-api contents into already existing content and you
don't want a paragraph break there?) It seems this same question was
effectively asked at
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API_talk:Parsing_wikitext and hasn't been
answered yet.
If the parser can't be configured in this way and I have to strip
possibly undesired openings tags myself do I have any guarantees on what
to expect?
2) Why do JSON results come back, for example, in the form of
parse.text['*'] rather than just parse.text? With format=XML the result
is just <parse><text>the stuff</text></parse>. Why the
"*"? Sorry if
this question is dumb.
-Zach