[Wikitext-l] Wikitext Madness of the Day: List Items

[Platonides]

Andreas Jonsson wrote:
> I am trying to support as many edge cases as far as reasonable in
> my attemt to write a new parser.  I seems, however, as if the parser
> is actively developed, and backwards compliancy with edge cases maybe
> isn't much of a concern.  For instance, in 1.16.0beta3 we have:
> 
>          $text = $this->doAllQuotes( $text );
>          $text = $this->replaceInternalLinks( $text );
>          $text = $this->replaceExternalLinks( $text );
> 
> which in trunk is:
> 
>          $text = $this->replaceInternalLinks( $text );
>          $text = $this->doAllQuotes( $text );
>          $text = $this->replaceExternalLinks( $text );
> 
> So, it is now possible to have apostrophes in internal links, but
> still not in external.

Yes. That was for supporting apostrophes in page titles without having
to write entities in the link. External links had some issues if you
tried to do it.


> Maybe it would be a good idea to provide som feedback to the user
> regarding bad syntax.  In my parser implementation, I am considering
> generating special events for syntax that should be avoided.  For
> instance:

I have supported for a long time the notion of a parser giving optional
warnings about "unsupported" wikitext.