[Mediawiki-l] template problem

Wed Nov 23 18:12:24 UTC 2005

Rick,
Thanks for your time.

My problem is that my wiki site using those three
templates to automate the portal creation process. So
I have three exact same templates.

In my first template, I have a <div> to open a box and
in my third template I have a </div> to close this
box.

But my wiki 1.5.2 did not recognize the </div> in the
third template.  So the display box is above the
content of the second template.  And at the display
rendering of the third template has a </div> at the
end.

Also can you explain to me why you use 01 and 10 when
you tried to explain nesting level.
Thanks
jc

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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:53:41 -0500
From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] TEMPLATE
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On 11/21/05, judi chen <judi_chen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> HI ALL,
>
> The reason I am asking so many question about this
> issue is because I try to simulate the following.
>
> Please refer to page on
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php/Portal:Game
>
> The code is as following,
>
> {{/box-header|Sports and games
> portal|Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Sports and
games/Intro|}}
> {{Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Sports and games/Intro}}
> {{/box-footer|}}
>
> the code for {{/box-header|Sports and games
> portal|Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Sports and
games/Intro|}}
> is as
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php/Wikipedia:Wikiportal/box-header

Except that to code fragment you quoted above does NOT
call that
template, it calls the template
Portal:Sports_and_games/box-header
which is a sub-page of the Portal:Sports_and_games
template.

That {{/box-header means that it's a sub-page relative
to the current 
page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Sports_and_games/box-header&action=edit

Note how this subpage template maps the positional
arguments into
keyword arguments with it calls the general
Portal:box-header
template.

> which creates a box.
>
> Then the second template
{{Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Sports
> and games/Intro}} 's content automatically goes into
> the box created by the first template.

The first template only starts the box, by emitting
the header and
opening a <div> for the borders, and the third one
(also a sub-page)
closes this div.

There is no nesting of templates involved here, as you
can see if you
look at tne nesting level of each brace:

{{/box-header|Sports and games
01
portal|Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Sports and games/Intro|}}

           10
{{Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Sports and games/Intro}}
01                                                    

10
{{/box-footer|}}
01                  10

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Rick DeNatale

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