Bryan Tong Minh wrote:
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Gabriel Sandor gabi.t.sandor@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
You are right. Tag extensions aren't expanded by the preprocessor. Instead, when you run the tag function, the tags which contain wikitext call expandTemplates() on the content with the same parser and frame.