... And, more importantly, its form doesn't say "separate the trail from
the link". Just like <nowiki>, it only *happened* to do it (I tried on
Wikipedia, and it doesn't do it now).
The point I'm trying to make in this thread is that <nowiki> happens to do
certain things other than showing wiki syntax without parsing, and is used
for them as if it's *intended* for it, but this is a hack. If a certain
functionality is needed, such as separating the trail from the link, then
it's worth considering creating a piece of syntax for it.
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בתאריך יום א׳, 7 באוק׳ 2018 ב-19:08 מאת bawolff <bawolff+wn(a)gmail.com
>:
Alas, no longer valid in XML or HTML5. (Although HTML5
will still
parse it as an empty comment, but with a "incorrectly-opened-comment"
error.
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On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 6:57 AM Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Found it :)
https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/SGML/sgml-lex/sgml-lex
Search for "empty comment declaration" :)
-Chad
On Fri, Oct 5, 2018, 11:50 PM Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm personally a fan of <!>.
>
> I came across it years ago--it's a null comment. Can't find the
reference
> at the moment though.
>
> -Chad
>
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2018, 2:25 PM Daniel Kinzler <dkinzler(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Am 04.10.2018 um 18:58 schrieb Thiemo Kreuz:
>> > The syntax "[[Schnee]]<nowiki />reichtum" is quite common
in the
>> > German community. There are not many other ways to achieve the same:
>> > <span /> or ­ can be used instead.[1] The later is often the
>> > better alternative, but an auto-replacement is not possible. For
>> > example, "[[Bund]]<nowiki />estag" must become
"[[Bund]]es­tag".
>>
>> We could introduce new syntax for this, such as &nope; or even
&nowiki;.
>>
>> Or how about {{}} for "this is a syntactic element, but it does
nothing"?
>> But if
>> that is mixed in with template expansion, it won't work if it expands
to
>> nothing, since template expansion
happens before link parsing, right?
For
better
or worse...
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On Oct 5, 2018 11:50 PM, "Chad" <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm personally a fan of <!>.
I came across it years ago--it's a null comment. Can't find the reference
at the moment though.
-Chad
On Thu, Oct 4, 2018, 2:25 PM Daniel Kinzler <dkinzler(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> Am 04.10.2018 um 18:58 schrieb Thiemo Kreuz:
> > The syntax "[[Schnee]]<nowiki />reichtum" is quite common in
the
> > German community. There are not many other ways to achieve the same:
> > <span /> or ­ can be used instead.[1] The later is often the
> > better alternative, but an auto-replacement is not possible. For
> > example, "[[Bund]]<nowiki />estag" must become
"[[Bund]]es­tag".
>
> We could introduce new syntax for this, such as &nope; or even
&nowiki;.
>
> Or how about {{}} for "this is a syntactic element, but it does
nothing"?
> But if
> that is mixed in with template expansion, it won't work if it expands
to
> nothing, since template expansion happens
before link parsing, right?
For
better
or worse...
--
Daniel Kinzler
Principal Software Engineer, MediaWiki Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
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