Alas, no longer valid in XML or HTML5. (Although HTML5 will still parse it as an empty comment, but with a "incorrectly-opened-comment" error.
-- Brian On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 6:57 AM Chad <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> Am 04.10.2018 um 18:58 schrieb Thiemo Kreuz: > >> > The syntax "[[Schnee]]<nowiki />reichtum" is quite common in the > >> > German community. There are not many other ways to achieve the same: > >> > <span /> or ­ can be used instead.[1] The later is often the > >> > better alternative, but an auto-replacement is not possible. For > >> > example, "[[Bund]]<nowiki />estag" must become "[[Bund]]es­tag". > >> > >> We could introduce new syntax for this, such as &nope; or even &nowiki;. > >> > >> 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 > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikitech-l mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > > On Oct 5, 2018 11:50 PM, "Chad" <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Am 04.10.2018 um 18:58 schrieb Thiemo Kreuz: > > > The syntax "[[Schnee]]<nowiki />reichtum" is quite common in the > > > German community. There are not many other ways to achieve the same: > > > <span /> or ­ can be used instead.[1] The later is often the > > > better alternative, but an auto-replacement is not possible. For > > > example, "[[Bund]]<nowiki />estag" must become "[[Bund]]es­tag". > > > > We could introduce new syntax for this, such as &nope; or even &nowiki;. > > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
