Template Standards

[Greg]

<includeonly>__NOTOC__<includeonly><INSERT TEMPLATE CODE HERE WITHOUT ANY SPACES OR LINE BREAKS></includeonly><noinclude>__NOTOC__
...
</noinclude>

Looking at the first line of code, it looks as if the initial includeonly and __NOTOC__ are redundant?

[z929669]

47 minutes ago, Greg said:

<includeonly>__NOTOC__<includeonly><INSERT TEMPLATE CODE HERE WITHOUT ANY SPACES OR LINE BREAKS></includeonly><noinclude>__NOTOC__
...
</noinclude>

Looking at the first line of code, it looks as if the initial includeonly and __NOTOC__ are redundant?

No, the first one is transcluded onto the page where the Template is called, and the second prevents TOC on the Template page itself.

Anything inside 'includeonly' tags is transcluded. Inside the 'noinclude' is not transcluded. It is arguable that they both need to be present, but we do it due to situations where we got unexpected results. There is also an 'onlyinclude' tag that we never use and may be better, but I have never tested explicitly.