Issue:DPL and Glossary clashing

Description:	using the Glossary extension seems to have adverse effects on DPL result sets
Extension / Version:	DPL   /   1.4.x
Type / Status:	Bug   /   open

Problem

Using DPL with Glossary seems to result in difficulties in combining categories. Thus previously working combinations of categories result in filtering of output only by the first category, and much larger outputs than intended.

Curious! Any ideas on a work-around?

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What is 'glossary'? Another mediawiki extension? If you want help you need to be more specific. You could upload a well-prepared example. If the glossary extension is needed for that I may be able to install it on this wiki. Gero 18:05, 22 July 2007 (CEST)

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Glossary is a Mediawiki extension http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Glossary The following is part of the example Glossary I was using.

AAP//American Academy of Pediatrics
ABR//auditory brainstem responses
ACE//angiotensin-converting enzyme
ACPC//Area Child Protection Committee now Local Safeguarding Children's Board
ADH//antidiuretic hormone
ADHD//attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

The purpose of Glossary is to show the detailed text (after the //) when the mouse is over the abbreviated text.

I previously had functional queries in DPL. Subsequently, I added Glossary and could get this working. However, when I went back to my pages that used DPL, I found that they had been corrupted producing far more results than usual. This suggested that Glossary was somehow interfering with the DPL logic. I switched Glossary off, as DPL is more useful to me, and found that DPL worked as before.

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There are several problems with Glossary. E.g. ist causes a severe error under MW 1.11. So I recommend not to use it together with DPL. I don´t think the problem is on DPL´s side...

Gero 16:14, 30 September 2007 (CEST)