2009/5/5 Brad Jorsch <[email protected]>: > On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 09:10:16AM -0700, Michael Dale wrote: >> Could we add in an action get message to the api or add some >> functionality to meta=allmessages ? >> >> Really need to be able to: >> A) send in parameterized replace values per msg key >> B) get the html rendered / parsed result (rather than the wikitext) >> >> Security wise the parameterized replace values should be treated as >> wikitext and go through the wiki-text-parser before rendered back out to >> the browser. > > I'm not sure how feasable that would actually be, as the messages are > not all handled the same way. In fact, as far as I know there isn't even > any generic way to tell how any particular message is handled besides > "read the source". It all depends on how exactly the message is used in > the code that actually makes use of it. > > Among other possibilities, the message could be treated as plain text, > as raw HTML, as fully-parsed wikitext (action=parse), or as > preprocessed-only wikitext (similar to if not the same as > action=expandtemplates); see the various wfMsg* functions. Substitution > of the parameters could be done before or after the message itself is > processed, and the individual parameters could themselves have been > processed in any manner before being passed to wfMsgWhatever. > Good point. Because parameter substitution is trivial (e.g. with PHP's strtr() function) and all other functions (preprocess, parse) are available already, this doesn't need any additional functionality.
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