On 8/12/13, Daniel Barrett danb@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/ve...

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