On 8/24/07, Florian Straub <flominator(a)gmx.net> wrote:
A good step.
Maybe that would give us the change to occasionally
"subst" it in order to
receive a "normal" description page:
This is the direction I'd like to go.
Otherwise machine reading could rescursively read the
templates and get the
information from the fields as well.
No it can't. ... not reasonably. The only way to reliably recurse in
anything external is to have a copy of all the templates, and to
implement a full mediaiki parser. The only truly complete parser is
the (rather slow) one in MediaWiki. ...
You can try to handle the cases in a third party parser, but you'll
always be chasing your tail: People constantly change our markup and
templates ... and the only standard they apply is how it looks in
mediawiki. :(