1 I'm trying to create a template to use as a sidebar with links. The template will be static
2 (no variables are used). I first created a page with this directive: \[[!template id=sidebar]],
3 and then created the template with the web interface.
5 This is the code I put in the template:
9 <li>\[[Existing internal link|exists]]</li>
10 <li>\[[Non-existing internal link|doesnotexist]]</li>
11 <li>[External link](http://google.com/)</li>
16 This is the relevant part of the resulting html file `template/sidebar.html`:
20 <li><a href="../exists.html">Existing internal link</a></li>
21 <li><span class="createlink"><a href="http://localhost/cgi-bin/itesohome.cgi?page=doesnotexist&from=templates%2Fsidebar&do=create" rel="nofollow">?</a>Non-existing internal link</span></li>
22 <li>[External link](http://google.com/)</li>
26 Note that the `<http://google.com/>` link has disappeared, and that `[External link](http://google.com/)`
27 has been copied literally instead of being converted to a link, as I expected.
29 > Templates aren't Markdown page. [[ikiwiki/WikiLink]] only are expanded. --[[Jogo]]
31 >> Thanks for the help Jogo. Looking at the [[templates]] page, it says that
32 "...you can include WikiLinks and all other forms of wiki markup in the template." I read this
33 to mean that a template may indeed include Markdown. Am I wrong in my interpratation? --[[buo]]
35 Worse, this is the relevant part of the html file of the page that includes the template:
39 <li><span class="selflink">Existing internal link</span></li>
40 <li><span class="createlink"><a href="http://localhost/cgi-bin/itesohome.cgi?page=doesnotexist&from=research&do=create" rel="nofollow">?</a>Non-existing internal link</span></li>
41 <li>[External link](http://google.com/)</li>
45 Note that the `Existing internal link` is no longer a link. It is only text.
47 What am I doing wrong? Any help or pointers will be appreciated. --[[buo]]