Stephan Gambke wrote: > I work on an extension that used to call parse() directly. Then after > some advice from mw developers this was changed to a call to > recursiveTagParse because "parse should not be called directly". > > Only problem is, the method that used to call parse() is used to > populate a Special page, so parse() is never called in the first place, > right? This means all the things parse() does in addition to > recursiveTagParse have to be copied over. So, what exactly makes it so > inadvisable to call parse()? > > Stephan
parse() is used from outside the parser. If you are a parser hook (a tag, or parser function), you must call recursiveTagParse(). If you are a Special page, you can happily call parse() (you may prefer to call $wgOut's parse, though). _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
