Module:Wikitext Parsing/doc

This module provides some functions to help with the rare processing error involved in modules like Module:Transcluder's getParameters() or Module:Template parameter value, which intend to parse the raw wikitext of a page. This module is not to be used in #invoke: calls, as there's no use in doing so. All text will be handled by MediaWiki before reaching the module anyways, and there will likely be no meaningful output.

PrepareText(text, keepComments) will run any content within certain tags (<nowiki>, <pre>, <syntaxhighlight>, <source>, <math>) that disable processing through mw.text.nowiki and remove HTML comments and <includeonly>...</includeonly> text to avoid irrelevant text being processed by modules, allowing tricky syntax to be parsed through more basic means such as %b{}.

If the second parameter, keepComments, is set to true, the content of HTML comments will be passed through mw.text.nowiki instead of being removing entirely.

Any code using this function directly should consider using mw.text.decode to correct their output at the end, though this will also decode any input that was encoded but not inside a no-processing tag, which likely isn't a significant issue but still something worth considering.

ParseTemplates(InputText, dontEscape) isn't ready for proper use in its current state for speed reasons, although functionally it works perfectly. Usage is highly discouraged.