On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Ron Laufer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I'm trying to use selective transclusion but via a template and I'm > > running into recursion issues. > > > > I would like to create a template that, when transcluded in a page (call > > it page A), causes that page to have a section surrounded by the > > <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> tags. Then when I transclude page A in page > > B, only the surrounded section of page A is shown in page B. The trouble > > of course is that if I put those tags in the template, then they get > > triggered on the first transclusion into page A. Is there a way to > > "escape" those tags such that each transclusion strips off a layer of > > escaping characters? > > > > I'm pretty sure you can't do this; <onlyinclude> etc are interpreted at the > same level of parsing as template invocations; by the time you're expanding > a template you're too deep already. > > -- brion > > I remember a similar question on Wikimedia Commons. I'm not sure if it's exactly the same and helps you – the way it was done there was to actually use it on itself. Something like <onlyi<includeonly/>nclude>foo</onlyinc<includeonly/>lude>. (yeah I know, pretty, isn't it, brion?) Depending on how it's used it may only work in a "subst:" context, if that's the case and you need it without subst, perhaps try something with a subtemplate using "safesubst:" - Krinkle _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
