[Wikitech-l] Ampersands and markerType=nowiki? (was RE: StripState and ampersands?)

[Daniel Barrett]

In a parser tag callback, if I change this:

  function myCallback($input, $argv, $parser) {
     return '&';
  }

to this:

  function myCallback($input, $argv, $parser) {
     return array('&', 'markerType' => 'nowiki');
  }

shouldn't the second one cause a plain ampersand to be rendered, rather than 
& ?
Reference: 
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Tag_extensions#How_can_I_avoid_modification_of_my_extension.27s_HTML_output.3F.

This is MediaWiki 1.18.1.

Thanks,
DanB

_____________________________________________
From: Daniel Barrett
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 3:42 PM
To: 'Wikimedia developers'
Subject: RE: StripState and ampersands?


> How can I prevent this conversion so ampersands (and presumably other special 
> characters) are preserved?

Followup up my own question: StripState is not relevant here. It's the fact 
that it's a parser tag extension. Simply returning "&" in the callback will 
produce "&". Is there a way to suppress this conversion when returning "&" 
from a parser tag extension?

DanB


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