https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42803

--- Comment #17 from C. Scott Ananian <[email protected]> ---
Just recapping an earlier IRC discussion: my opinion is that the general form
of this bug is too aggressive (globally rewrites the input too drastically) and
unnecessary.  I prefer to see local fixes such as the one in comment 16 that
address the straightforward local cases (like merging adjacent <span> or other
tags with identical attributes) rather than trying to find globally-optimal tag
nestings (which may create surprising long-distance mutations which can also be
costly to search for).

My opinion may well be wrong.  Hopefully the bugs linked as dups can be
evaluated in this light; one of them may well be the killer case which simply
can't be solved with a local transform and instead needs the resurrection of
the global tag minimization code.  I look forward to being thus shown
incorrect. ;)

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