Originally from: http://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/bugs/1334/
Reported by: Anonymous user
Created on: 2011-08-28 15:13:07
Subject: Self closing tags
Original description:
Since MW 1.16 wgHtm5 and wgWellFormedXml are turned on by default. And cosmetic\_changes.py still changes things like <br> to <br />, I don't see any reason for that. There are three options we have here:
\* Stop making these kind of changes
\* Make these changes "complete" and add some tags that are not fixed \(eg. <hr> to <hr />\)
\* Do just the opposite, and let the MW fix the tags \(eg. a<br/> to <br>, etc\)
I like the third option, because it makes the code easier to read for editors.
In the attachment there's a patch to apply the third option.
python version.py:
Pywikipedia \[http\] trunk/pywikipedia \(r9462, 2011/08/28, 11:34:03\)
Python 2.7 \(r27:82500, Aug 07 2010, 16:54:59\) \[GCC\]
config-settings:
use\_api = True
use\_api\_login = True
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**Version**: unspecified
**Severity**: enhancement
**See Also**:
https://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/bugs/1334