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 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
> wrote:
>
>> Am 04.10.2018 um 18:58 schrieb Thiemo Kreuz:
>> > The syntax "[[Schnee]]reichtum" is quite common in the
>> > German community. There are not many other ways to achieve the same:
>> > or can be used instead.[1] The later is often the
>> > better alternative, but an auto-replacement is not possible. For
>> > example, "[[Bund]]estag" must become "[[Bund]]estag".
>>
>> We could introduce new syntax for this, such as or even .
>>
>> 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" 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 wrote:
> Am 04.10.2018 um 18:58 schrieb Thiemo Kreuz:
> > The syntax "[[Schnee]]reichtum" is quite common in the
> > German community. There are not many other ways to achieve the same:
> > or can be used instead.[1] The later is often the
> > better alternative, but an auto-replacement is not possible. For
> > example, "[[Bund]]estag" must become "[[Bund]]estag".
>
> We could introduce new syntax for this, such as or even .
>
> 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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