https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19063
Summary: Pipe (|) in form inputs
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: any
Platform: All
URL: http://km.aifb.uni-
karlsruhe.de/projects/owltests/index.php?title=Inconsist
ent-pattern-disjointness&oldid=3330
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: SemanticForms
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Using a | in a form input is currently problematic since | has a special
meaning in templates. Doing this will put the page into a very bad state, and
this cannot be recovered with "edit with form" since the | confuses SF as well.
It is not possible to avoid this by clever template construction, since it
already happens when parameter values are passed.
The problem can be avoided by replacing | with |. The example URL shows
this workaround -- see older versions for what it looks like without it. Doing
this escape in general, however, would break intentional mark-up, e.g. when a
user includes a link with an alternative display text in a form input. I
suggest to either parse the user input with the MW parser to distinguish those
cases, or to have some option "verbatim" that can be declared for an input
field when defining a form: this option should make SF escape all special
characters, thus preventing most HTML or MW markups, but preserving the
original writing. This should be very useful for wikis where users are
completely unaware of the underlying wiki.
Note that this solution could also be useful in the context of Bug 19062. Also
note that it is not possible to have a parser function that does the escaping
in the template, since the special characters often affect the way in which
parser functions are actually interpreted, and since mark-up like <!-- will
never get to aparser function.
Tested on FF 3.0.10, MW 1.14alpha, SMW 1.5e-SVN, SF 1.6.
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