Pawns are firmly VE territory. Moving to the VisualEditor product.

To perhaps clarify, VE and parsoid should accept both

and

as validly closed templates that should be displayed and rendered identically. Both syntaxes should be retained as is when roundtripping.

(In reply to comment #2)

To perhaps clarify, VE and parsoid should accept both

content

-

}

and

content

}

as validly closed templates that should be displayed and rendered
identically.

We currently don't strip empty table rows, which seems to be done in some conditions in the PHP parser + tidy combo. We could emulate this behavior in templated content and maybe also outside of templated content, but will need to avoid dirty diffs and preserve WYSIWYG behavior even when another row is added in VE.

Both syntaxes should be retained as is when roundtripping.

This should already be the case in Parsoid. I just verified this at http://parsoid.wmflabs.org/_rtform/. Pawn insertion would a DOM modification in VE.

I think this edit https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cash_investigation&diff=96500094&oldid=95914321 is related.

Change 119067 had a related patch set uploaded by Esanders:
Only insert slugs where paragraphs are allowed

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/119067

Change 119067 merged by jenkins-bot:
Only insert slugs where paragraphs are allowed

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/119067