On 8 December 2014 at 12:52, Derk-Jan Hartman <d.j.hartman@gmail.com> wrote:

Welcome to the problem of 'there is no structured metadata for files' :)

This is a garbage in, garbage out problem and probably when you start filtering you will break attribution requirements (more than the community will appreciate).

I figured. :-(

So, given that we can't do anything meaningful with the HTML in a native app, that means we only have three options:

Display the raw HTML directly to the user
Try to parse the HTML for interesting information and update the relevant view's properties using native code
Strip any and all HTML tags that are given to us in the JSON

The first two aren't sounding workable at all to me; the first is unworkable from a product standpoint, and the second is an absolutely gigantic can of worms. So I guess we'll be stripping the HTML until such time that this is fixed. :-)

Thanks,

Dan

Dan Garry

Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps

Wikimedia Foundation