[Mediawiki-l] Will extension tags be recognized in <tag/> form?

Brion Vibber brion at wikimedia.org
Wed May 30 19:12:44 UTC 2007


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Ken McDonald wrote:
> I'll know soon enough, I guess :-), but thought I'd ask in case anyone 
> had further info; if I write an extension tag (say, 'mytag') that takes 
> no text, can I use it as <mytag/>, or do I need to say <mytag></mytag>?

Yes, you may use <mytag/>. Note that this form will pass a null value to
your hook function, while <mytag></mytag> will pass an empty string, so
you can distinguish between the two if you wish.

- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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