https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39617

--- Comment #36 from Erwin Dokter <[email protected]> ---
If extensions rely on "long standing parser output", it means the parser can
never be changed or improved. I once got admonished by a bot operator because I
dared to change the output of a template, throwing the (scraping) bot into a
fit. I can't help but feel this is kind of the same situation.

Having the parser locked in because of extensions depending on its output is a
Very Bad Thing. What happens if the parser is rewritten? It happened before. Is
the Parsoid Team going to block that as well? Can Parsoind not be made
line-break-agnostic in some way?

Having Tidy run on spacial pages *would* solve all hlist problems on the
Wikimedia cluster. But it does mean that hlist integration in core is out,
because Tidy would be a pre-requisite for other installations.

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