Issue:Headingmode definition buggy output

Description:	Headingmode definition buggy output. The html is wrong for the output, some tags are transformed in html special chars.
Extension / Version:	DPL   /   1.5.0
Type / Status:	Bug   /   answered

Problem

To reproduce:

<DPL>
category=African Union member states
ordermethod=category,title
headingmode=definition
</DPL>

Reply

Thanks for bringing this up. Adding "debug=5" shows the html code:

{{Extension DPL}}<DL><DT>[[:Category:African_Union_member_states|African Union member states]]</DT><DD><UL><LI>[[Cameroon|Cameroon]]</LI><LI>[[Nigeria|Nigeria]]</LI><LI>[[Somalia|Somalia]]</LI><LI>[[Sudan|Sudan]]</LI></UL></DD></DL>

To me this seems to be syntactically correct. Experimenting a little showed the following:

<DL><DT>a term</DT><DD>its definition</DD></DL>

produces:

a term

its definition

whereas

<DL><DT>a term<DD>its definition</DL>

produces:

a term

its definition

So it seems that I would have to produce syntactically incorrect html code to get it through the wiki parser. Very strange. Would you like to bring that up for mediawiki developers?

As an alternative I could generate wiki syntax

;[[:Nigunda]]:its definition

This should also work:

Nigunda

its definition

You could easily change this in your DPL code (lines 3019..3024) but it would prevent you from using hlistattr. Is that relevant for headingmode=definition? If not I could make the changes and publish ..

Please look at line 2988. DOes it make sense to add DD and DL here ?

BTW: Would you like to rejoin the develoment team (which is, sad to say, only me alone at the moment ...) ?

Gero 19:17, 23 October 2007 (CEST)