Issue:Undesired vertical bar inserted in userformat mode output.
| Description: | Undesired vertical bar inserted in userformat mode output. |
| Extension / Version: | DPL / 1.7.4 |
| Type / Status: | Bug / open |
Problem
My wiki has pages with templates with templates such as the following:
{{mytemplate
|parm1=parm1value
|parm2=parm2value
|parm3=parm3value
}}
I am attempting to generate a list of all uses of 'mytemplate' where parm1 = parmvalue1. I want the list to display the values of two other parameters of the template with separators that I can specify using other parameters. I'm attempting to use the following query:
{{#dpl:
|uses=Template:mytemplate
|mode=userformat
|includematch=/\s*parm1\s*=\s*parm1value/s
|includepage={mytemplate}:parm2:parm3
}}
I want it to give me the following output:
parm2valueparm3value
...and then let me specify what separators to put between them.
However, the query produces the following output:
parm2value |parm3value
The code in includeTemplate() is inserting a vertical bar and newline into the output, apparently presuming that the output is being used to form a template call. But when I specify mode=userformat, I don't want DPL to add any formatting; I want to do that myself.
Reply
Thank you for the precise explanation. I see your problem: indeed DPL assumes that this kind of output will become part of a tabular report. Please have also in mind that a page might use a template more than once (with different parameters, presumably). In that case DPL inserts not only pipe symbols but an additional html-br-tag for separation purpose (as far as I remember).
I recommend that you think of the pipe symbol as a separator symbol which DPL inserts to make clear where different "items" within the result start and end. If you do not want the pipe char as a symbol in your output you can use a #replace function call to throw it away or to replace it by a space or whatever you feel would be appropriate. I recommend to use debug=5 if you get lost - sometimes it is not easy to understand why some formatting does not work as expected. debug=5 will wrap the output in nowiki-tags so that you see unwanted characters in the output text.
Good luck! Gero 21:43, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
