https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16330


Brad Jorsch <b-jor...@northwestern.edu> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Brad Jorsch <b-jor...@northwestern.edu>  2008-12-21 
19:12:34 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> I can't see any advantage to allowing nested refs at all.  Why would you want
> to cite a citation? :D

You might want to cite a footnote.

It seems part of the problem with allowing <ref>foo<ref>bar</ref></ref> is that
the parser interprets it as one node "<ref>foo<ref>bar</ref>" instead of as two
nested <ref>s; see
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=yamlfm&action=expandtemplates&text=%3Cref%3Efoo%3Cref%3Ebar%3C/ref%3E%3C/ref%3E&generatexml=1


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