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Bug 2374 – Allow extension tags to be terminated empty elements (<extension/> instead of <extension></extension>)

Last modified: 2006-01-21 02:14:11 UTC

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Bug 2374 - Allow extension tags to be terminated empty elements (<extension/> instead of <extension></extension>)


Summary:	Allow extension tags to be terminated empty elements (<extension/> instead o...

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	MediaWiki
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Parser (Other open bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Normal enhancement with 2 votes (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Nobody - You can work on this!

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Keywords:	parser

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Reported:	2005-06-10 18:39 UTC by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Modified:	2006-01-21 02:14 UTC (History)
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Description Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 2005-06-10 18:39:38 UTC

There are extensions that only produce output but don't take any input, allowing
terminated empty elements for extensions would make the syntax more consistant.

 <extension></extension>

Instead of 

 <extension/>

Note that arguments would also have to be supported, that is,

 <extension foo="bar"/>

Instead of

 <extension foo="bar"></extension>

Comment 1 Rowan Collins [IMSoP] 2005-06-13 01:18:00 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> There are extensions that only produce output but don't take any input, allowing
> terminated empty elements for extensions would make the syntax more consistant.

Just a comment about this being "more consistent" - this is based on the
interpretation of the extension markup as "being XML", rather than "happening to
look a bit like XML". If you think of the wiki markup as completely independent
of any other standard, having "<foo>bar</foo>" in no way implies having "<foo
/>" or even "<foo opt='bar'>". Not that I deny there's a certain elegance to XML
self-closing tags, I just think it's worth remembering that XML and wiki-markup
are two very different and basically unrelated beasts.

Comment 2 Zigger 2005-06-13 02:52:38 UTC

This change helps usability, as it would reduce the keystrokes needed to enter
an empty extension tag and would also reduce visual clutter (aka markup),
without being compulsory, so it seems wiki-good.  It also reduces the need to
add more "magic words".

Comment 3 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 2005-06-18 01:07:57 UTC

I applied a quick hack to support this in HEAD.

Comment 4 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 2005-06-18 01:20:04 UTC

Quick indeed.

Comment 5 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 2006-01-21 02:14:11 UTC

This was FIXED in CVS HEAD some time ago, there's a parsertest for it (along
with more extension stuff)

RESOLVED FIXED

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