Wow! Thanks for the speedy reply!
2008/11/13 David Iberri via RT <bug-HTML-WikiConverter-MediaWiki@rt.cpan.org>:
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> Hi Dan,
>
> On Thu Nov 13 04:20:11 2008, dan.bolser wrote:
>> I noticed that <BR> tags are just passed through - I wonder if you could
>> instead handle them just like <P>'s?
>
> Thanks for the comment. I think I know what you're talking about, but
> just want to clarify. The current behavior is to convert this HTML:
>
> <p>Sentence one.<br/>
> Sentence two.</p>
>
> into this MediaWiki markup:
>
> Sentence one.<br/>
> Sentence two.
>
> What you are asking for is that the same incoming HTML be converted into
> this MediaWiki markup:
>
> Sentence one.
>
> Sentence two.
>
> Sans "<br/>" and with the <br/> treated like a paragraph break. Is that
> right?
Yeah. I just read up on the true difference between BR and P -
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_difference_between_br_and_p_in_html
But in MediaWiki I don't think that the distinction has an analogous
markup. So yeah, its possible that in HTML someone would type:
item one<br>
item two<br>
item three<br>
For some reaon I like to type that (in MediaWiki) as:
item one
item two
item three
I think the result is the same... let me check... Hmm... Actually the
result looks somewhat different, the former creating less whitespace
between lines.
Personally I don't like to see any html in my wikitext, so I would
tend to use the latter (or a proper list)
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>> I figure its trivial to pass the rules for the P tag to the BR tag, but I
>> think this should be the default (or at least an option) rather than an
>> 'ad-hoc' patch.
>
> I'm not sure how trivial it is; unfortunately, I can't just pass the <p>
> rules over to the <br> tag because <p> elements are block-level
> elements, while <br>s are "empty" tags (they don't contain text).
> However, I suspect it can be done without undue difficulty. I'll see
> what I can do about adding an option.
>
> Thanks again for the report.
Oh, I thought it would be '$wp->rules_for_tag( "br" ) =
$wp->rules_for_tag( "p" )'. I see that this issue isn't 100%, so I'll
leave it up to you to decide what to do...
Thank you for the great package!!!
Dan.
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> David Iberri
>
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