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diff --git a/doc/bugs/map_generates_malformed_HTML.mdwn b/doc/bugs/map_generates_malformed_HTML.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d47d066a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/map_generates_malformed_HTML.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +[[!template id=gitbranch branch=smcv/ready/map author="[[Simon McVittie|smcv]]"]] + +`\[[!map]]` can generate bad HTML with unbalanced open/close tags +(in XML terms: "not well-formed") in certain situations. This +appears to be a regression caused by fixing +[[maps with nested directories sometimes make ugly lists]], which +suppressed some redundant `</ul><ul>` pairs, but appears not to +have the ideal logic for this, leading to malformed HTML. + +In particular, on a site with these pages: + +* alpha + * 1 + * i + * ii + * iii + * iv + * 2 + * a + * b + * 3 +* beta + +the maps "alpha/1 or beta", "alpha/1/i* or alpha/2/a or beta" and +"alpha/1/i* or alpha/2/a" have malformed HTML. + +My `ready/map` branch adds a regression test and makes it pass. + +The fix is not particularly elegant - it generates the previous +HTML with redundant `</ul><ul>` pairs, marks the redundant +pairs, and edits them out afterwards - but it works. If anyone can come +up with a cleaner algorithm that avoids generating the redundant tags +in the first place, that would be even better. --[[smcv]] |