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

I'm attempting to determine the output of recursiveTagParse, which I am calling from a parser function. To do so, I'm trying to return the output of recursiveTagParse wrapped in   tags, which I was hoping would show me the rendered HTML. I'm seeing some unexpected behavior. When I do this:

$parsedList = $parser->recursiveTagParse("* test"); return $parser->insertStripItem($parsedList, $parser->mStripState);

I get this:
 * test

But when I do this:

I get this:


 * test

It's almost like the rendered HTML is being converted back into wikitext. I'm completely lost. Does anyone have any insight on this?