Starting by replacing <nowiki>\s<nowiki> would be safe enough imho.
Vito
2015-06-19 10:38 GMT+02:00 Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il:
Hi,
In the last few days I've been looking for reasons for the appearance of unnecessary <nowiki> tags. This mostly happens because of various VisualEditor and Parsoid issues. The developers have been very good at fixing them, and now it happens very rarely, but there are still lots of these useless tags lurking in pages.
Two examples are:
- '''<nowiki/>''' - this doesn't do anything at all. I couldn't reproduce
it in any way, so it's probably a bug that was fixed.
- <nowiki> </nowiki> in the beginning of a paragraph. This was added in the
past to avoid putting the paragraph in <pre>, but it's entirely useless, because the spaces are trimmed. Now they are pre-trimmed, so this is also a fixed bug, but a lot of pages still have it.
There may be more - I'm still looking for these.
It would be easy to write bots to fix such easy common cases, but they would have to run on every project. Would it make sense to write them as maintenance scripts that update them everywhere when people upgrade VE?
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