Last modified: 2014-11-17 09:21:08 UTC
The parser currently generates inconsistent HTML output from similar wikitext markup. I'll show two examples to make this clear: If one has something like this: :Introduction text :# Item 1 :# Item 2 :# Item 3 :Signature The whole thing, when rendered, should be enclosed in a <dl><dd></dd></dl>. What happens instead is that while the ordered list is placed inside the same <dd> of the intro text, the signature creates a new <dd>. All of it fits inside the <dl>, though. Second case: Introduction text # Item 1 # Item 2 # Item 3 Signature Here the generated HTML consists of 3 container (<p>) elements, with the intro text, the list, and the signature, respectively. This should instead be the case if one used: Introduction text # Item 1 # Item 2 # Item 3 Signature But without the newlines, the whole thing should be inside a single <p>. There isn't a validity or well-formedness problem here, but a semantic one: the author should be able to signal to the parser that the signature is part of the same semantic block as the list and the intro text; and in any case, the behavior should be consistent across mediawiki (the two examples above should behave the same) and follow the "newline-starts-new-block-element" behavior.
