Last modified: 2006-06-06 02:59:08 UTC
Due to some change in parsing, the <nowiki> tags stopped working inside <charinsert>. This makes it impossible to use templates (which expand when not inside <nowiki>), and anything containing + or space (which have a special meaning inside <charinsert>). This breaks some of the most useful functions of MediaWiki:Edittools (the insertion of templates and things like <ref name=""/>). Some examples: <nowiki>{{</nowiki>SN}} used to result in insertTags('{{SN}}', '', ''), now it results in insertTags('<nowiki>{{</nowiki>SN}}', '', ''). <ref<nowiki> </nowiki>name="+"<nowiki> </nowiki>/> used to result in insertTags('<ref name="', '" />', ''), now it results in three separate links containing insertTags('<ref<nowiki>', '', ''), insertTags('</nowiki>name="', '"<nowiki>', '') and insertTags('</nowiki>/>', '', ''). Please restore the old parsing or provide some sort of workaround. (An optional attribute like <charinsert space="1"> suppressing the special meaning of whitespace would solve half of the problem.)
A workaround for the template problem is to include everything from another namespace (templates inside <charinsert> expand in the MediaWiki namespace only), so only the space problem remains.
It's not "broken", it just doesn't exist. <charinsert> doesn't contain wiki markup. It's possible <charinsert> could have it's very own <nowiki> parsing, but that just seems silly. Anyway, needs to be very carefully checked for security if added.
Working on this...
Added a pseudo-<nowiki> for <charinsert> in r14584, in which whitespace is allowed. Other characters appear the same in or out.
