On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Ron Laufer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm trying to use selective transclusion but via a template and I'm > running into recursion issues. > > I would like to create a template that, when transcluded in a page (call > it page A), causes that page to have a section surrounded by the > <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> tags. Then when I transclude page A in page > B, only the surrounded section of page A is shown in page B. The trouble > of course is that if I put those tags in the template, then they get > triggered on the first transclusion into page A. Is there a way to > "escape" those tags such that each transclusion strips off a layer of > escaping characters? > I'm pretty sure you can't do this; <onlyinclude> etc are interpreted at the same level of parsing as template invocations; by the time you're expanding a template you're too deep already. -- brion _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
