-[[template id=plugin name=template included=1 author="""[[Joey]]"""]]
-[[tag type/format]]
+[[!template id=plugin name=template author="[[Joey]]"]]
+[[!tag type/widget]]
+This plugin provides the [[ikiwiki/directive/template]] [[ikiwiki/directive]].
With this plugin, you can set up templates, and cause them to be filled out
-and inserted into pages in the wiki. Using a template works like this:
-
- \[[template id=foo name="Charley" color="red" age=11]]
-
-This fills out the template `templates/foo`, filling in the `color` and `age`
-fields on it with the specified values, and inserts the result into the page.
-
-If a value is triple-quoted, it can include any markup that would be
-allowed in the wiki page outside the template. Combined with multi-line
-quoted values, this allows for large chunks of marked up text to be
-embedded into a template:
-
- \[[template id=foo name="Sally" color="green" age=8 notes="""
- * \[[Charley]]'s sister.
- * Really 8 and a half.
- * Wants to be an astronaut when she grows up.
- """]]
-
-To create a template, make a page in the wiki named `template/foo`. Note
-that this is a different location than the directory used for the
-[[templates]] used to build the wiki itself, which is not inside the wiki.
-
-The template uses the syntax used by the HTML::Template perl module, which
-allows for some fairly complex things to be done. Consult its documentation
-for the full syntax, but all you really need to know are a few things:
-
-* To insert the value of a variable, use `<TMPL_VAR variable>`.
-* To make a block of text conditional on a variable being set use
- `<TMPL_IF NAME="variable">text</TMPL_IF>`.
-
-Here's a sample template:
-
- <span class="infobox">
- Name: <TMPL_VAR name><br />
- Age: <TMPL_VAR age><br />
- <TMPL_IF NAME="color">
- Favorite color: <TMPL_VAR color><br />
- <TMPL_ELSE>
- No favorite color.<br />
- </TMPL_IF>
- <TMPL_IF NAME="notes">
- <hr />
- <TMPL_VAR notes>
- </TMPL_IF>
- </span>
+and inserted into pages in the wiki. Existing templates are listed in the
+[[templates]] page.