On 10/08/2011 9:49 AM, Daniel Friesen wrote:
WikiText is loose so instead of errors, if the parser doesn't like something you inputted it's not going to pass that through raw and let a html validator say it's wrong, it's going to decide it doesn't like it and treat it as plaintext.
Well, the validation feature that I added to my web-site helped me catch a bug for you.
If you are outputting WikiText that includes the HTML-like <h1>, <h2>, etc., tags, then make sure you're not outputting them in the context of table content, because that is invalid. In order to turn such WikiText into compliant HTML, the <h1> WikiText should be converted to a <span class="h1"> HTML element, and so forth. The various skins should be updated to do something sensible with the h* classes.
I'll let you know if my HTML validator helps me to easily catch any other bugs like this for you.
We've already established that MediaWiki is broken because it's outputting empty <ul> elements, so maybe you can have a look at fixing that up too.
Thanks.
John.