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Originally from: http://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/bugs/1334/ Reported by: Anonymous user Created on: 2011-08-28 15:13:07 Subject: Self closing tags Original description: Since MW 1.16 wgHtm5 and wgWellFormedXml are turned on by default. And cosmetic\_changes.py still changes things like <br> to <br />, I don't see any reason for that. There are three options we have here: \* Stop making these kind of changes \* Make these changes "complete" and add some tags that are not fixed \(eg. <hr> to <hr />\) \* Do just the opposite, and let the MW fix the tags \(eg. a<br/> to <br>, etc\) I like the third option, because it makes the code easier to read for editors. In the attachment there's a patch to apply the third option. python version.py: Pywikipedia \[http\] trunk/pywikipedia \(r9462, 2011/08/28, 11:34:03\) Python 2.7 \(r27:82500, Aug 07 2010, 16:54:59\) \[GCC\] config-settings: use\_api = True use\_api\_login = True
Patch
<hr> will be replaced by mediawiki syntax ---- look at cosmetic\_changes.fixHtml\(\)
Ups, didn't remember that \(since I have seen plenty of hr in templates\), so you can't ignore the second line in patch.
The bug says in cosmetic changes the code needs to change <br /> to <br> instead of doing vice versa. I don't have any opinion on this
