As an update, definition lists are now supported, they are simply defined
as "term" and "definition" in the WikiDom listItem styles attribute, in
addition to the already supported "bullet" and "number" styles.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/102068

It was disturbingly easy to add this functionality.

- Trevor

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Trevor Parscal <[email protected]>wrote:

> The other day I took the time to migrate the serializers into the latest
> codebase.
>
>
> http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/VisualEditor/modules/es/serializers/
>
> There are lots of things we can do to finish and or complete them, but
> they are a good way to hit the ground running.
>
> Some key things that need to be worked on:
>
>    - es.HtmlSerializer needs an algorithm that expands the flat list
>    items in WikiDom into a tree structure more suitable for HTML rendering
>    - es.HtmlSerializer and es.WikitextSerializer need support for more
>    things, namely definition lists but other gaps may exists as well (and we
>    need to define what definition lists look like in WikiDom)
>    - es.AnnotationSerializer needs some nesting smartness, so that
>    overlapped regions open and close properly (<b>a<i>b</b>c</i> should be
>    <b>a<i>b</i></b><i>c</i> - es.ContentView does this correctly but is
>    working from the linear data model)
>    - We need some sort of context that can be asked for the HTML of a
>    template, whether a page exists, etc. Initially this work is all done on
>    the client, which means this is a wrapper for a lot of API calls, but
>    either way, having a firm API between the renderer and the site context
>    will help keep things clean and flexible
>
> The serializers depend on some static methods in es and es.Html - but are
> otherwise very stand-alone. We may even want to move es and es.Html (which
> are very general purpose libraries) to a shared library that the parser and
> es code can both depend on.
>
> - Trevor
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Gabriel Wicke <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> today I started to look into generating something closer to WikiDom from
>> the
>> parser in the ParserPlayground extension. For further testing and parser
>> development, changes to the structure will need to be mirrored in the
>> current serializers and renderers, which likely won't be used very long
>> once
>> the editor integration gets underway.
>>
>> The serializers developed in wikidom/lib/es seem to be just what would be
>> needed, so I am wondering if it would make sense to put some effort into
>> plugging those into the parser at this early stage while converting the
>> parser output to WikiDom. The existing round-trip and parser testing
>> infrastructure can then already be run against these serializers.
>>
>> The split codebases make this a bit harder than necessary, so maybe this
>> would also be a good time to draw up a rough plan on how the integration
>> should look like. Swapping the serializers will soon break the existing
>> ParserPlayground extension, so a move to another extension or the wikidom
>> repository might make sense.
>>
>> Looking forward to your thoughts,
>>
>> Gabriel
>>
>>
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