Last modified: 2013-06-10 03:39:49 UTC
* Don't assume a separator, allow access to params['sep'] within the template * Escape template $listsep with a separated <span> tag in order to be able to mark/filter those elements if necessary * Allow params['userparam'] to be available in IntroTemplate/OutroTemplate
* Put a div tag around the whole output
* If a template is being used for output, don't use any outside separators because the template should take care of the formatting itself.
I'm not sure if this needs a separate bug report (maybe this is addressed in MWJames' second request above?). The issue is that sometimes multiple values in a printout statement are not correctly parsed in the template, as reported here: http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Template_format#Sep The problem occurs whenever a value contains commas (e.g. "York, Ontario"). The list of values passed to the template itself contains commas so that it becomes impossible for the arraymap function to distinguosh between them.
For historical reasons, I should add that there has been some discussion about this, but nothing has come from this, apparently. See bug 22777 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22777
I will not work on this for a while, I do have patch (somewhere) but their are other pending changes for SRF 1.8 which have a higher priority therefore anyone who feels he/she can tackle this enhancement, please go ahead. If someone goes ahead with the change, please ensure that parameter "sep" is used instead of itemsep as proposed in bug 22777.
Do you mean that once the old "sep" is abandoned, as you propose (because there's little need for it), it can be replaced with the "itemsep" under the name "sep"? Just now I realised that there's also the Array format, which according to the SMW docs, "is used to format query results in a way most suitable for further processing by MediaWiki templates or parser functions". Whatever that means (templtes? parser functions?), it offers a number of specialised separators, such as "sep", "propsep" and the sep requested here, "manysep". As a non-developer, I'm just putting this out here, but maybe some of the code for the Array format could be incorporated?
No this is not what I meant. I did not suggest to abandon(nor something has been deprecated) any parameter rather to consider existing solutions that uses similar approaches just like the [1] where a template inclusion does transfer the "sep" into the template output. If might a bit more confusing for a non-developer but for example looking at [1] method initTemplateOutput shows how "easy" it is to transfer the |sep parameter into the template output. [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/17165/3/formats/incoming/SRF_Incoming.php
Well, whatever I had planned in doing here has already outlived its purpose therefore closing this one.
