Re: [Wikitech-l] non-obvious uses of in your language

[Chad]

Found it :)

https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/SGML/sgml-lex/sgml-lex

Search for "empty comment declaration" :)

-Chad

On Fri, Oct 5, 2018, 11:50 PM Chad <innocentkil...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm personally a fan of <!>.
>
> I came across it years ago--it's a null comment. Can't find the reference
> at the moment though.
>
> -Chad
>
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2018, 2:25 PM Daniel Kinzler <dkinz...@wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Am 04.10.2018 um 18:58 schrieb Thiemo Kreuz:
>> > The syntax "[[Schnee]]<nowiki />reichtum" is quite common in the
>> > German community. There are not many other ways to achieve the same:
>> > <span /> or &shy; can be used instead.[1] The later is often the
>> > better alternative, but an auto-replacement is not possible. For
>> > example, "[[Bund]]<nowiki />estag" must become "[[Bund]]es&shy;tag".
>>
>> We could introduce new syntax for this, such as &nope; or even &nowiki;.
>>
>> Or how about {{}} for "this is a syntactic element, but it does nothing"?
>> But if
>> that is mixed in with template expansion, it won't work if it expands to
>> nothing, since template expansion happens before link parsing, right? For
>> better
>> or worse...
>>
>> --
>> Daniel Kinzler
>> Principal Software Engineer, MediaWiki Platform
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>
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>
>
On Oct 5, 2018 11:50 PM, "Chad" <innocentkil...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm personally a fan of <!>.

I came across it years ago--it's a null comment. Can't find the reference
at the moment though.

-Chad

On Thu, Oct 4, 2018, 2:25 PM Daniel Kinzler <dkinz...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Am 04.10.2018 um 18:58 schrieb Thiemo Kreuz:
> > The syntax "[[Schnee]]<nowiki />reichtum" is quite common in the
> > German community. There are not many other ways to achieve the same:
> > <span /> or &shy; can be used instead.[1] The later is often the
> > better alternative, but an auto-replacement is not possible. For
> > example, "[[Bund]]<nowiki />estag" must become "[[Bund]]es&shy;tag".
>
> We could introduce new syntax for this, such as &nope; or even &nowiki;.
>
> Or how about {{}} for "this is a syntactic element, but it does nothing"?
> But if
> that is mixed in with template expansion, it won't work if it expands to
> nothing, since template expansion happens before link parsing, right? For
> better
> or worse...
>
> --
> Daniel Kinzler
> Principal Software Engineer, MediaWiki Platform
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> _______________________________________________
> Wikitech-l mailing list
> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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