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But with <tt><nowiki>{{#dpl:titlematch=%underscore|replaceintitle=/ /,&#95;}}</nowiki></tt> you will get {{#dpl:titlematch=%underscore|replaceintitle=/ /,_}} | But with <tt><nowiki>{{#dpl:titlematch=%underscore|replaceintitle=/ /,&#95;}}</nowiki></tt> you will get {{#dpl:titlematch=%underscore|replaceintitle=/ /,_}} | ||
| − | == When I use | + | == When I use multi-column output my background color is cluttered == |
| − | There is a special parameter | + | There is a special parameter named [[DPL:Manual_-_DPL_parameters:_Controlling_output_format#rowcolformat|rowcolformat]] which allows to set the background color, cell-spacing etc. in combinaton with 'columns=' or 'rows='. See also [[DPL:Requests_for_new_features_Archive#Global background-color]]. |
== I try to generate table formatting with DPL but it looks weird - to hell with the syntax! == | == I try to generate table formatting with DPL but it looks weird - to hell with the syntax! == | ||
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My article name contains underscores, but in the DPL result they won´t appear.
Normally, DPL replaces all undercores in article names by spaces when showing the result. You can replace underscores by their symbolic html name via the 'replaceintitle' statement. So DPL will no longer recognize the underscores and later the html engine will translate the symbolic name to underscores.
This wiki contains an Article_with_underscore. Normally DPL would show it as . But with {{#dpl:titlematch=%underscore|replaceintitle=/ /,_}} you will getWhen I use multi-column output my background color is cluttered
There is a special parameter named rowcolformat which allows to set the background color, cell-spacing etc. in combinaton with 'columns=' or 'rows='. See also DPL:Requests_for_new_features_Archive#Global background-color.
I try to generate table formatting with DPL but it looks weird - to hell with the syntax!
Indeed, complex queries can be somewhat tricky. But this is not only a problem of DPL. MediaWiki is quite sensitive to blanks and linefeeds and half of your problems will probably come from there.
There is a simpe trick how you can DEBUG your DPL script:
Use a resultsheader and a resultsfooter to enclose all DPL output in pre/nowiki tags like this:
<dpl>
resultsheader=<pre><nowiki>
resultsfooter=</nowiki></pre>
titlematch=Nig%
include=%1[300]
format={|class=wikitable\n!article\n!beginning\n|-,\n[[%PAGE%|%TITLE%\n,\n,\n|}
</dpl>
If we execute the above query (without the debug header/footer) the result will be deeply unsatisfactory:
| article | beginning |
|---|
But why?
With our little trick we can watch the output of DPL which would normally be immediately rendered by the wiki parser:
{{Extension DPL}}{|class=wikitable
!article
!beginning
|-
[[Nig1|Nig1]]
[[Nig2|Nig2]]
[[Nig3|Nig3]]
[[Nig4|Nig4]]
[[Nigunda Test|Nigunda Test]]
Nigunda Test History - Chapter Sequence in the article doesn´t matter for DPL ..
[[Nigunda|Nigunda]]
some facts about religious groups in Nigunda; some other facts about religious groups in Nigunda;
[[Category:Tag_Event2]]
[[Nigeria|Nigeria]]
:<div class="noprint">''Main article: [[History of Nigeria|History of Nigeria]]''</div>
:<span class="boilerplate seealso">''See also: [[:Nigerian military juntas of 1966-1979 and 1983-1998|Nigerian military juntas of 1966-1979 and 1983-1998]]''</span>
More than 2,000 years ago. the [[Nok]] [[Nigeria#History|..→]]
|}
And now we see: After the |- the next table row does not start with a '|'; and, apart from that, there is no "end of row" after each article. Now it is easy to correct the DPL query:
<dpl>
titlematch=Nig%
include=%1[300]
format={|class=wikitable\n!article\n!beginning\n|-,\n|\n[[%PAGE%|%TITLE%]],\n|-,\n|}
secseparators=\n|\n,
</dpl>
.. and we get the desired result:
| article | beginning |
|---|---|
|
Nigunda Test History - Chapter Sequence in the article doesn´t matter for DPL .. | |
|
some facts about religious groups in Nigunda; some other facts about religious groups in Nigunda; | |
In our "debugger" it looks like this:
{{Extension DPL}}{|class=wikitable
!article
!beginning
|-
|
[[Nig1|Nig1]]
|
|-
|
[[Nig2|Nig2]]
|
|-
|
[[Nig3|Nig3]]
|
|-
|
[[Nig4|Nig4]]
|
|-
|
[[Nigunda Test|Nigunda Test]]
|
Nigunda Test History - Chapter Sequence in the article doesn´t matter for DPL ..
|-
|
[[Nigunda|Nigunda]]
|
some facts about religious groups in Nigunda; some other facts about religious groups in Nigunda;
[[Category:Tag_Event2]]
|-
|
[[Nigeria|Nigeria]]
|
:<div class="noprint">''Main article: [[History of Nigeria|History of Nigeria]]''</div>
:<span class="boilerplate seealso">''See also: [[:Nigerian military juntas of 1966-1979 and 1983-1998|Nigerian military juntas of 1966-1979 and 1983-1998]]''</span>
More than 2,000 years ago. the [[Nok]] [[Nigeria#History|..→]]
|-
|}
