[Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] On templates and programming languages

[Andrew Gray]

2009/7/1 Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com>:

> An idea that has been toyed with a couple of other places is to allow
> defined blocks and references to them in article text.  For example:
>
> An article might start:
>
> <display name="infobox" />
> Thomas Jefferson was the third president...

This is a marvellous idea, and presumably a lot of the code for it is
already in existence (what with <ref> etc). It'd also solve the issue
with people wanting to "templatise" content such as infoboxes in order
to reduce the clutter on a specific page.

Can anyone see any obvious downsides?

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk