https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5600

--- Comment #23 from Jackmcbarn <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Jitse Niesen from comment #20)
> How is Cite going to work around the restriction "Any sort of counter like
> this would inherently be a side effect, which we're trying to move away
> from." (comment 14).
> 
> In particular, in the following extract the footnote numbers of both <ref>
> tags have to be coincide and the links have to go to the same footnote:
> 
>    Some statement.<ref name="source1">Details of source 1</ref>
>    ...
>    Another statement supported by the same source.<ref name="source1" />
> 
> It would be helpful if the constraint on side effects is explained somewhere
> so that we know what we have to work around (or overturn).

Parsoid includes its own implementation of Cite as an extra parsing pass, which
gets used instead of the "real" Cite. Building and maintaining that is a lot of
work for the Parsoid team, and it's the only way things with side effects can
work under Parsoid.

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