On 29 October 2011 15:08, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote:

> Daniel Werner wrote:
> > I am thinking about creating a very simple parser function #parse doing
> > nothing but returning parameter 1 with an "'noparse' => false" option.
> > Is there anything like this (or what could be abused for this) already
> > or is there any reason why this might be a bad idea?
> >
> > The reason I want to have something like this is, I want to create a
> > template (for template and parser function black-box tests) accepting
> > something like {{((}}#somefunction:a{{!}}b{{!}}c{{))}} as parameter
> > value, showing {{#somefunction|a|b|c}} as output and at the same time
> > calling {{#parse: {{((}}#somefunction:a{{!}}b{{!}}c{{))}} }} so that
> > besides the definition also the result can be shown by the template
> output.
> >
> > regards,
> > Daniel
>
> I think that would make more sense as a tag extension (parse doesn't
> look like a good name, what about <wikidemo>?).
>
> @Happy Melon: I think he wants a funtion which shows both parsed
> wikitext and the original source.
>
>
He intends to *build* such a structure, certainly; but I read the OP as
saying he wanted to implement it via a template like {{demonstrate
template}} [1] but with (just) the backend handled by a new parser
function.  I agree that you'd be better off/would avoid many of the
problems given above by having a tag extension
<wikidemo>{{foo|bar|baz=quok}}</wikidemo> that spat out its contents as a
parameter to a customisable system message that read something like
""<code><nowiki>$1</nowiki></code> produces: $1"".  If I remember the parse
order of tag extensions verses parser function extensions right, that
should work pretty much straight out of the box??

--HM

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Demonstrate_template
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