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Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:38:02 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Unbalanced </p> appears in some situations, particularly with htmltidy
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Unbalanced </p> appears in some situations, particularly with htmltidy
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+When using the [[plugins/htmltidy]] plugin (and possibly in other circumstances), ikiwiki sometimes creates more `</p>` tags than `<p>` tags, causing unbalanced markup. I've previously noticed unbalanced tags when a `\[[!map]]` matches no pages. This is part of the reason I developed [[plugins/htmlbalance]].
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+This is particularly noticeable if htmltidy is enabled when building the docwiki: on the 'contrib' plugin pages, the title becomes `foo </p> (third-party plugin)` (with the angle-brackets escaped - it seems the text gets sanitized but is then escaped anyway).
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+I believe that this snippet in `IkiWiki.pm` might be the reason for the imbalance:
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+        if ($oneline) {
+                # hack to get rid of enclosing junk added by markdown
+                # and other htmlizers
+                $content=~s/^<p>//i;
+                $content=~s/<\/p>$//i;
+                chomp $content;
+        }
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+The fact that HTML in a `\[[!meta title]]` is added but then escaped might indicate that some other bug is involved.