The tokenizer incorrectly handles some difficult tag-related markup #40
Description
- Bold and italics that cross contexts are handled incorrectly, because the tree structure does not support overlapping nodes (for example,
''foo'''bar''baz''', or''foo{{bar|baz''}}). Fixing this will probably be very difficult. - Open tags that do not have a close tag before the parser reaches EOF are ignored, whereas some of them should be parsed (like bold and italics) and have some kind of "hidden close" flag set.
- MediaWiki counts the occurrences of
;in the block before any text and uses this as the maximum number of parsable:s after. The current implementation only allows one:regardless of how many;s there are. - MediaWiki prevents some tags from crossing certain contexts (italics and bold can't cross headings, for example) but this implementation has no such restriction.
- The parser only recognizes a space as the separator character between the URL and its link title in
[ ]tags, but MediaWiki also accepts some other syntax (e.g.[http://example.com/''Example'']is valid).
1, 4, and 5 are high priority, whereas 2 is mid and 3 is low.