SpecialSymbolsExample

This page shows a partial example of how to use semantic mediawiki via templates when page values contain characters (semantic) mediawiki uses for its template and/or property setting syntax.

The problematic symbols are

| = { } [ ] <

In various combinations or patterns these mess up the parsing of pages defined by mediawiki templates and with the semantic mediawiki property setting syntax.

While documentation for escaping `|` is easy to find, documentation for escaping the other special symbols is harder to discover - but can be found here on the mediawiki site.

 |      |
 =      =
 {      {
 }      }
 [      [
 ]      ]
 <      <

However, as on this sandbox site, many of these "escape" templates are not predefined - but they are easy to define as needed.

These escapes are used in the defining template:

SIMPLE	no special symbols here!
CODE	={[}]<

The template can display this value without any further issues or enclose in html tags for display.

The automatic property data-type dependent display implemented by semantic mediawiki is not available since the `` technique does not work.

The template should populate the relevant property using the #set: technique.

PageForms does not appear to support the editing of such fields.

SIMPLE	no special symbols here!
CODE	={[}]<