to open a XML element. It should help fix bug #5312 later on.
* XML attributes rendering now made by private Xml::expandAttributes() method
* Xml::openElement() and Xml::tags() no more rely on Xml::element() with
a null content.
* Fix wfElement() call with null content when we actually open an element.
* $stack is not modified in Profiler::calltreeCount(), no need to pass-by-ref.
* Add FIXME marker to non-cross-platform line.
* A freshly created string does not need to be returned by reference. [Xml::namespaceSelector() and HTMLnamespaceselector() ].
* use configured cache servers for mctest.php
* bucket details in mcc.php
* fix input validation and remove debugging code in compressOld
* full ID range for moveToExternal
* fix resolveStubs.php for compatibility with older serialized data
* maximum line length for bar graphs in getLagTimes.php
* recognize specieswiki in rebuildInterwiki.inc
* --purge option to do additional parser-cache purging for purgeList.php
* default changed in MiniDonation extension
* profile unicode cleanup in Xml
* log slow parses in Article.php
* profile wfMsgReal
* log mkdir failures
* profile AutoLoader
* rebuild empty DjVu metadata containing ''
* security fix for DjVu metadata retrieval
* Added a configuration variable allowing the "break out of framesets" feature to be switched on and off. Off by default -- there's all sorts of flashy frameset gadgets around, outright abuse is more rare, especially for small default installs.
* Refactored URL fragment handling.
* Made Title::secureAndSplit() slightly more legible.
* Refactored makeGlobalVariablesScript() -- it's not particularly convenient or maintainable to pass all global variables through the template array. The array is there for BC, not flexibility.
* removing some unused global declarations.
* removing or commenting out or adding comments for unused local vars.
* Adding one or two local var declarations.
* Declaring $matches array passed to preg_match() / preg_match_all() as array() before using [not required, just have a slight preference for the explicitness].
* remove one or two pass-by-reference function declarations where the value is not modified.
* Adding some braces to if-else blocks.
* In Parser.php, stripstrate is now an object rather than an array as per r17820, so we no longer need ask for a reference to it (as in "$x =& $this->mStripState;"), and in fact it's probably just simpler to get rid of $x altogether.
* Moving some preg regexes from "" quoting to '' quoting to stop static analyzer whinging about bad escape sequences.
... up to "LinksUpdate.php" in the includes/ directory.
* Removed some backtracking regexes with an O(N^2) worst case, replaced with StringUtils::delimiterReplace(). There is a beneficial functional difference: /*/ is no longer considered to be a complete CSS comment.
* Changed the parser strip state from an array to an object. This should hopefully avoid the PHP bugs with array references. StripState uses the new ReplacementArray to do the replacements, thereby supporting FSS.
* Removed DatabaseFunctions.php from the default startup sequence. Moved wfGetDB() to GlobalFunctions.php.
* Introduced the SiteStats class, with a collection of cached site stats accessor functions.
* Removed all global functions from Parser.php, they don't belong there.
* Made LanguageConverter use the new ReplacementArray class instead of managing its own FSS objects.
* Preserves tabs and newlines as given (they would otherwise be normalized to spaces by the XML input processor)
* When generating output back to wiki text, this avoids line-based block parsing breakage. (bug 6577)
* Made autoloader work for unserialize()
* Made XmlFunctions.php and HttpFunctions.php autoloadable modules, via Http:: and Xml::
* Made Image class autoloadable, global functions moved to ImageFunctions.php where they can be loaded on every invocation.
* Removed some unnecessary require_once() calls
* Deferred $wgValidSkinNames initialisation
* Fixed a couple of silly construct/initialise splits. My idea from C++ experience, bad practice in PHP.
* Deferred skin initialisation in ParserOptions
* Removed $wgMwRedir during an attempt to make MagicWord autoloadable. Didn't complete that, but removing the global is still the right direction.
