Thread:Project:Support desk/Determining the output of recursiveTagParse/reply

After another few tests, recursiveTagParse is clearly not rendering wikitext as the documentation claims it does. If I use $wgOut->parse, I get something closer to what I expect, except with all those annoying newlines inserted. The page source shows this:

Except instead of showing the HTML, Firefox is actually showing the list wrapped in a pre box. Is using $wgOut->parse the way to go?