Annoying HTML

Writing the parser for the content management module for FOST.3™ was a very complex affair, and it's fair to say that it still isn't without its rough edges. Its best feature though is that it can turn fairly unstructured Mediawiki style mark-up into correct, validating XHTML which is also semantic.

Here are just three of the more complex issues to do with generating correct HTML from the perspective of writing a general content management system like FOST.3™.