साँचा:Xyzy/doc

Usage

Default script template

This is used when a script template is not provided to templates such as {{term}} and {{t}}. It will generate correct attributes and html/xml language tags. If the language is in a set of known languages for which scripts can reasonably be assumed (e.g. "he" language to "Hebr" script) it invokes the specific script template.

This is only to be used by other templates, never in entries; entries should use the correct script template directly if needed.

Parameters

• (1) text to be tagged
• lang= language code
• face= one of [term, ital, head, bold] to set default attributes
• xlang= not used as required for all script templates, so caller can avoid "lang=" when blank

The template attempts to handle various combinations of face and lang being specified or not and/or being blank.

• if lang is blank, the template adds no tagging
• if lang is missing, it adds tagging for face, if given
• if lang is not known, it adds tagging for face, if given

There are failure cases, which calling templates should take care to avoid where possible:

• if lang is missing, and face is invalid, it will generate blank lang tags (believed to be legal, but not desirable)

  Not exactly. In XHTML 1.0 Transitional (which we use), lang="" and xml:lang="" are both invalid, in that they violate the DTD (these attributes are of type NMTOKEN, which the XML 1.0 spec defines as (NameChar)+). However, XML 1.0 does define semantics for xml:lang="", saying basically that it explicitly overrides the xml:lang of an enclosing element, but without providing a new value.^[१] Those semantics actually apply pretty well for us: the enclosing context is in English, but the quoted word is likely not to be. The question is, are the semantics even relevant, given that it's not valid? —Ruakh_TALK 18:52, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

• lang and face are partially mixed together, so things like {{Xyzy|foo|lang=term}} and {{Xyzy|foo|face=he}} have interesting effects (in this case, <>foo</> and {{|1=foo|face=he|lang={{{lang}}}}}, respectively)
• if lang is invalid, it will generate bad lang tags (not checked)

Examples

(see page source in your browser)

• {{Xyzy|foo}}: foo
• {{Xyzy|foo|face=bold}}: foo
• {{Xyzy|foo|face=ital}}: foo
• {{Xyzy|foo|face=term}}: foo
• {{Xyzy|字典|lang=cmn}}: 字典
• {{Xyzy|字典|lang=ja}}: 字典
• {{Xyzy|พจนานุกรม|lang=th|face=head}}: साँचा:Thai

Bad examples:

• {{Xyzy|foo|face=bogus}}: foo
• {{Xyzy|foo|lang=xx-zz}}: foo

Languages

code	language	script
ar	अरबी	Arab
fa	फ़ारसी	fa-Arab
ur	उर्दू	ur-Arab
hy	आर्मीनियाई	Armn
xcl	साँचा:xcl	Armn
be	बेलारूसी	Cyrl
bg	बुल्गारियाई	Cyrl
mk	मकदूनियाई	Cyrl
ru	रूसी	Cyrl
uk	यूक्रेनी	Cyrl
cu	साँचा:cu	Cyrs
sa	संस्कृत	Deva
hi	हिन्दी	Deva
got	साँचा:got	Goth
el	यूनानी	Grek
grc	पुरानी यूनानी	polytonic
he	इब्रानी	Hebr
yi	यिडिश	Hebr
arc	साँचा:arc	Hebr
ja	जापानी	Jpan
ko	कोरियाई	Kore
ta	तमिल	Taml
te	तेलुगु	Telu
th	थाई	Thai

Notes

The name comes from the magic word "xyzzy" from Adventure. It is made to look like an ISO script name, but one very unlikely to be assigned.

It may be very tempting to add languages and scripts, but it should be avoided! Each one adds overhead to many calls on a large majority of the wikt pages, and the benefits for languages beyond what is already there are minimal. Any such change must be very carefully considered.

Tests

• {{t new|fr|foo}}: साँचा:t new
• {{t new|th|พจนานุกรม}}: साँचा:t new