Thanks for your answers....
So basically you're saying that for no wikitag the templates that are
enclosed by it are guaranteed to be expanded ? Or is it just for <ref> and a
few other wikitags ? Or is it rather for specific combinations of wikitags
and templates ? I'm sorry for keep asking this but unfortunately i couldn't
find anything in the documentation that could make it clear for me. I'm
experimenting now with the Special:ExpandTemplates page but i still can't
reach a definite conclusion.
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Conrad Irwin <conrad.ir...@gmail.com>wrote:
> The parser converts tags to __UNIQ__ tokens while parsing and then expands
> these (either to original input, or to extension output) right at the end.
> Because you are doing expandtemplates, the __UNIQ__ tokens are expanded to
> the original wikitext instead of the rendered contents.
>
> Tag extension output is arbitrary HTML, so putting the rendered contents
> would not be correct for just "expandtemplates" in many cases. Adding
> another mechanism to the tag hooks API so that they can opt to return "this
> is the wikitext I would have rendered" would be possible, if confusing (we'd
> then have some tag hooks returning input wikitext if they didn't, or
> couldn't realistically, support the new API).
>
> Conrad
>
>
> On 15 October 2010 11:07, Bryan Tong Minh <bryan.tongm...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Gabriel Sandor <gabi.t.san...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > However, i soon found out that not all of the templates are actually
>> > expanded, the exception being those templates enclosed in wiki tags,
>> which
>> > are left unexpanded (perhaps the most common example being {{cite ...}}
>> > templates inside <ref></ref> tags).
>> >
>>
>> It appears to be that this happens indeed for <ref> tags. These tags
>> are part of extension Cite. Cite normally takes those tags, removes
>> them an relocates them to the location of the <references /> tag.
>>
>> I'm guessing here, but what I think happens is that extension Cite
>> only does this in the parsing stage, so in the preprocessing stage
>> nothing is processed. Perhaps somebody with parser and Cite knowledge
>> can elaborate a bit more on this?
>>
>>
>> Bryan
>>
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