On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Gabriel Sandor <gabi.t.sandor(a)gmail.com> wrote:
However, i soon found out that not all of the
templates are actually
expanded, the exception being those templates enclosed in wiki tags, which
are left unexpanded (perhaps the most common example being {{cite ...}}
templates inside <ref></ref> tags).
It appears to be that this happens indeed for <ref> tags. These tags
are part of extension Cite. Cite normally takes those tags, removes
them an relocates them to the location of the <references /> tag.
I'm guessing here, but what I think happens is that extension Cite
only does this in the parsing stage, so in the preprocessing stage
nothing is processed. Perhaps somebody with parser and Cite knowledge
can elaborate a bit more on this?
Bryan