Cynicism aside Rob, I appreciate the reply.
Did a bit more digging, and found this 'bug' in bugzilla: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1772 Seems like it's been around awhile. I updated the version, added a note, and voted for it.
For the time being I can work around it by limiting the text I insert between my tags (no newlines). However, I'd like to publish my extension, and I'm unlikely to do so if I have to have the caveat of: 'you have to format the tagged content just-so...'.
Don't know if my previous global flag or callable method ideas have much merit ( or are feasible to integrate into the parser structure ). But, it'd be nice if a developer latched on to them... :)
LJ
On 2/4/06, LJ lukehjohnson@gmail.com wrote:
Howdy,
So tonight I set off writing a short little extension for mediawiki, and got in a fight with the parser.
My extensions characteristics, in short, are that: it takes arguments from my defined tags and the content between the tags, and inserts them into a javascript function.
To make my javascript 'pretty', I like to stick a few \n's in the $input strings (the content between the tags). Of course the parser is more then happy to turn these into:
</p><p><br />
</p><p><br /> </p> <pre>
(for 5 \n's), which really busts up the javascript. :)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_extensions_FAQ#How_can_I_avoid_modi... ... implies the parser would have to be mucked with to prevent conversion of the newlines.
But!!!!... a section or two above, it's stated that when you forcibly render text with the parser, you can turn off the <p> tags with a simple 'false':
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_extensions_FAQ#How_do_I_render_wiki...
I'd think it'd be a short step to allow the extension to set a variable, or call a method, essentially giving the parser the same 'false', as when it is called directly: $wgOut->parse('text', false); That sure would make life easier. E.g. $wgParser->setHook( "MyExtension", "renderMyExtension", 'false'); ... or maybe $wgParser->setPtag('false');
Hopefully somebody can tell me if I've missed some easy answer, or this functionality is already there (no, I haven't read through Parser.phpyet). Or a second best: that there would be interest into adding this into nearby release?
I'm aware there is probably a 'long way' around this problem, i.e.: set a hook for ParserAfterTidy, then find my tags+content, strip my tags and their args, re-insert my args+content, and finally dump all of the page again... bleh...
Thanks, Luke