Last modified: 2014-05-30 19:38:21 UTC
An unclosed <ref> tag on the page eats up the rest of the page, typically including the requisite <reference> tag at the bottom of the page. However, VisualEditor handles the unclosed <ref> tag more gracefully, treating it as plain text. At the URL above, the wikitext: Before <ref> during after <references /> is rendered: Before[1] Cite error: <ref> tag found without <references/> whereas VisualEditor shows: Before <ref> during↵after There are no references on this page to include on this list. This issue was brought to my attention by an editor who somehow created the unclosed <ref> tag in VisualEditor. (See the initial revision of [[vi:Danh sách các chi tiết gợi nhớ đến Disney trong phim Enchanted]].) I’ve reached out to the editor for information on how they might’ve gotten into that state.
Never mind about that last part. It looks like they introduced the unclosed <ref> tag by hand, not using VisualEditor.
So is this a request for matching the more graceful behavior in the PHP Cite implementation, or is it a request for Parsoid to truncate the page as well?
I'm not sure; that depends what the more graceful behavior would be, but I would expect Parsoid to match Cite in any case. Does Parsoid's current behavior seem like a more reasonable way for Cite to handle unclosed <ref> tags?
