On 12/02/2013 12:29 PM, Subramanya Sastry wrote:
- The link “[1] [2] ...” in text or references disappears in Parsoid
HTML. Example1: see “[1] [2] [3] [4]” in http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1982_PBA_Open_Conference&oldid..., it disappears in http://parsoid-lb.eqiad.wikimedia.org/enwiki/1982_PBA_Open_Conference?oldid=.... Example2: “[1]” in http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2008%E2%80%9309_Barnsley_F.C._seas..., disappears in http://parsoid-lb.eqiad.wikimedia.org/enwiki/2008%E2%80%9309_Barnsley_F.C._s....
This is a deliberate change, and is documented in our DOM spec [1]. Auto-numbered external links are rendered as empty links with the numbering added using CSS counters. The PHP parser explicitly inserts numbers into the HTML DOM.
Gabriel
[1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/MediaWiki_DOM_spec#Numbered_external_...