MoinMoin supports traditional page templates (page name: FooTemplate), which is useful for including boilerplate text in other pages. It also supports page-render time content inclusion style templates via the <<Include()>> macro. Someone please stop me if the below is noise because there's support in MoinMoin I couldn't identify.
There is some confusing discussion of an alternate style of templates based on "variable replacement" here: https://moinmo.in/FeatureRequests/Templates The feature request author is describing functionality like MediaWiki's support for very flexible templates based on parameter substitution, in which values for variables in the template are passed in to the template and rendered in the output at the time of page rendering. This is described here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates The difference between MoinMoin's Include-based templates and MediaWiki's parameter substitution based templates can be significant in use cases where one wants to create page or content block templates that can provide a basic structure for a page, but pages using those templates only have to pass a list of parameters to the template to render entire pages or content blocks with different values/information on the page when displayed. The latter is similar to template engines like Jinja and allows for very flexible sets of pages in a wiki created from a core template but with user-specified values from templates pages passed to the included template. If it doesn't make sense, you kind of have to see how it works in MediaWiki to appreciate it. One possible implementation in MoinMoin would be to extend the Include() macro to accept either a list of parameter values or (the useful one I think) parameter names and values so that they can be substituted into variables in the included page. -- Darren Spruell phatbuck...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785351&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Moin-user mailing list Moin-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/moin-user
