I would also recommend against actively trying to emit barely parsing output. Any savings after compression should be rather small, and if only end tags are omitted the DOM will of course still be the same size after parsing.
In Parsoid we went to some modest lengths <https://github.com/wikimedia/parsoid/blob/master/lib/XMLSerializer.js> to produce polyglot markup <http://www.w3.org/TR/html-polyglot/>, which is both valid XML and HTML5. This has enabled consumers to use either XML or HTML5 parsers, which has proven very useful in practice. For example, this makes it easier to consume this content using PHP's libxml. Doing the same in MediaWiki core is admittedly harder, but I still think that we should follow the robustness principle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle> wherever we can. Gabriel On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On 19/02/15 08:43, Gergo Tisza wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Petr Bena <benap...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> (Perhaps wgWellFormedXml is true by default?) > > > > > > It is: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgWellFormedXml > > There was a Bugzilla report and Gerrit change requesting that it be > set to false: > > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T52040 > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/70036/ > > I was against it, partly because of the omitted <head> tag. > > -- Tim Starling > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
