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Parsoid/MediaWiki DOM spec/Element IDs/Brainstorm

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Stable IDs edit

Summary of the Nov. 22, 2013 brainstorm, http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Parsoid_stable_id_brainstorming

Metadata storage using ids vs. stable ids edit

It should be noted that metadata storage and stable ids are two separate issues. For correctness of VE edits, stable ids are not necessary. We can always reparse and regenerate ids (and associated metadata). This is about stable ids for switching back & forth between HTML and wikitext.

Ideas for stable ids across wikitext edits edit

We need to demarcate edited and unedited sections where we can reuse ids. Different angles to same problem, but 1) coarser, and 2) more perf-oriented,

HTML DOM diffing edit

  • Re-parse modified wikitext, and DOM-diff the resulting DOM while ignoring data-parsoid.
  • For each DOM node that did not differ (significantly), transfer the old IDs to the new DOM.
    • Update data-parsoid, and any other element-associated metadata that needs updates (authorship maps for example).

Incremental reparsing edit

  • Bad nesting forces wider reparsing
  • Don't have a good sense for how hard it will be

Dependencies edit

Performance considerations edit

  • more aggressive template / fragment reuse
    • depends on nesting enforcement
  • shortcut DOM-diffing for unchanged wikitext in top-level sections

Copy & Paste edit

  • client needs to make unique ids and pass in html / metadata

Conclusions edit

DOM diffing seems to be the better starting point.

  • start work on id transplantation using dom diff output
  • refine DOM diff to handle moves, wrappers
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