Difference between revisions of "User:Alec/BookTemplate/LabBook"

Revision as of 13:59, 30 July 2016

Tried to create a reference template with an if statement for the name attribute (so as to create an anonymous reference when there is a note provided) however it wasn't interpreted as XML with a > - created User:Alec/BookTemplate/EvalTemplate to see if that'll help. This template evaluates to whatever it is given.
Discovered it was a missing space between <ref and {{#if: that caused the problem. EvalTemplate can be removed
Discovered mediawiki cannot substitute between XML tags, and instead there's the #tag special parser function instead, it's not documented! I had to search the source code, there's a line in ParserMethodsTest.php (in tests/phpunit/includes/parser in the Mediawiki directory) that reads:
- {{#tag:pre|foo|style=margin-left: 1.6em}}
  - From this I concluded {{#tag:name|content|attrib=value}} works, I think it uses the normal named=thing syntax of templates and thus quotes are not needed.

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 # Tried to create a reference template with an if statement for the name attribute (so as to create an anonymous reference when there is a note provided) however it wasn't interpreted as XML with a {{C|>}} - created [[User:Alec/BookTemplate/EvalTemplate]] to see if that'll help. This template evaluates to whatever it is given.
 # Discovered it was a missing space between {{C|<nowiki><ref</nowiki>}} and {{C|<nowiki>{{#if:</nowiki>}} that caused the problem. ''EvalTemplate can be removed''
+# Discovered mediawiki cannot substitute between XML tags, and instead there's the {{C|#tag}} special parser function instead, it's not documented! I had to search the source code, there's a line in {{C|ParserMethodsTest.php}} (in {{C|tests/phpunit/includes/parser}} in the Mediawiki directory) that reads:
+#* {{C|<nowiki>{{#tag:pre|foo|style=margin-left: 1.6em}}</nowiki>}}
+#** From this I concluded {{C|<nowiki>{{#tag:name|content|attrib=value}}</nowiki>}} works, I think it uses the normal {{C|1=named=thing}} syntax of templates and thus quotes are not needed.