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