User:Dantman/Skinning system/Template syntax/Wiki-like template syntax

(Platonides)

It would use a brace syntax as placeholder value between the literal tag syntax of html. It would not be supporting wikitext, or run through the parser, just the Preprocessor.

<div id="globalWrapper">
	<div id="column-content">
		<div id="content" lang="{{#lang: special}}">
		<a id="top"></a>
		<div id="siteNotice" mw:if="sitenotice">{{SITENOTICE}}</div>

		<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">{{TITLE}}</h1>
		<div id="bodyContent">
			<mw:loop for="subtitle">
				<mw:this />
			</mw:loop>
			
			{{#if:{{{NEWTALK|}}}|<div class="usermessage" mw:if="newtalk">{{{NEWTALK}}}</div>}}
			<div id="jump-to-nav" mw:if="showjumplinks">{{jumpto}} <a href="#column-one">{{jumptonavigation}}</a>, <a href="#searchInput">{{jumptosearch}}</a></div>
			<!-- start content -->
			{{BODYTEXT}}
			{{CATLINKS}}
			<!-- end content -->
			{{dataAfterContent}}
			<div class="visualClear"></div>
		</div>
	</div>
</div>
<div id="column-one" lang="{{#lang: user}}">
	<div id="p-cactions" class="portlet">
		<h5>{{views}}</h5>
		<div class="pBody">
			<ul mw:loop="content_actions">
				<mw:loop variable="content_actions">
					<li><a href="{{{tab}}}">{{{key}}}</a></li>
				</mw:loop>
			</ul>
		</div>
	</div>
	<div class="portlet" id="p-personal">
		<h5><mw:msg key="personaltools" /></h5>
		<div class="pBody">
			<ul mw:loop="personal_tools">
				<mw:loop variable="content_actions">
					<li><a href="{{{tab}}}">{{{key}}}</a></li>
				</mw:loop>
			</ul>
		</div>
	</div>
	<div class="portlet" id="p-logo">
		<a style="background-image: url({{logopath}});" href="{{nav.mainpage}}" mw:tooltip="p-logo" accesskey></a>
	</div>
	<script>if (window.isMSIE55) fixalpha();</script>
	{{{SIDEBAR}}}

<mw:loop variable="portlets">
	<div class="generated-sidebar portlet" id="p-{{{key}}}" {{#tooltip|p-{{{key}}} }}">
		<h5>{{{header}}</h5>
		<div class='pBody'>
			<mw:loop variable={{{portletitem}}}>
				{{{content}}}
			</mw:loop>
		</div>
	</div>
<mw:loop>
<!-- end of the left (by default at least) column -->
<div class="visualClear"></div>
<div id="footer" lang="mw:user">
	<div id="f-*ico">
		<mw:loop variable="icons">
			{{{1}}}
		</mw:loop>
	</ul>

</div>
</div>

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My notes: Dantman

• The use of {{#lang:special}} loses the advantages that lang="mw:page" has of removing redundant lang attributes while improving proper lang tagging of blocks on the page
• I believe we'll lose the context sensitivity that the template syntax has, at least if we don't want to make significant changes to the preprocessor
• The {} happy WikiText syntax is a mess to write templates with.
• Without changes to the preprocessor I believe it will also be fairly tricky to extract information like that planned to be extracted from <mw:region [...] />