DPL talk:Manual - DPL parameters: Controlling output volume

Hi, the manual says: "a text portion which is marked by special tags named "foo"", but there is not explanation how to put a marker tag foo in all the articles which appear in DPL listing. Janek Kozicki

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10 lines above the manual refers to LabeledSectionTransclusion. Read that. Gero 08:32, 10 October 2007 (CEST)

Include and Template Parameters

What if a page includes a particular template or page more than once. Is there a way to specify the parameters of the nth call to said template? —Sledged (talk) 06:13, 10 October 2007 (CEST)

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This sounds rather exotic. You can apply a regexp to the call parameters for filtering - and I guess that the n-th template invocation can be recognized by some difference in the parameters from the (n-1)th invocation ... Isn´t that enough?

Gero 08:32, 10 October 2007 (CEST)

I'm not sure I understand how that'd work. Can you give an example? —Sledged (talk) 00:28, 24 October 2007 (CEST)

If you call a template 10 or twenty times from an article: Why would you want to extract exactly the 10th invocation? I would assume that you are more interested in certain parameter constellations instead of the position of the template call ... Unless you give a convincing example I can´t see why we should count template invocations ..

To pick a template call based on the argument values it uses the includematch statement can be used. Gero 23:57, 25 October 2007 (CEST)

I wasn't actually saying that it should count template invocations. I was merely asking (in not so many words) "Does it count template invocations?" Going by your response, I'm guessing no.

In most situations I probably wouldn't want the nth invocation of a template, unless I wanted to randomly select one of invocations for sampling or such. However, I could see wanting to get the first n invocations or the last i invocations.

Also, without a means to select a specific template invocation, which one is selected if multiple ones exist? The first? The last? All? Randomized? Undefined? —Sledged (talk) 22:05, 8 November 2007 (CET)