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The template has an obligatory and five optional argument: | The template has an obligatory and five optional argument: | ||
*Obligatory; unnamed | *Obligatory; unnamed | ||
**'''1''': the link target, e.g. https://uic.org | **'''1''': the link target, e.g. https://uic.org. '''Please, recognize [[#note|the note below]].''' | ||
{{note|{{anchor|note}}If the content of the unnamed arguments contains equality signs this can easily result in errors. | |||
;example | |||
<nowiki>{{site|https://www.railml.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=71&|Heidrun Jost BaliseGroup and its attributes railML forum post}}<nowiki />}}</nowiki><br>results in:<br>{{site|https://www.railml.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=71&|Heidrun Jost BaliseGroup and its attributes railML forum post}}<nowiki /> | |||
There are two remedies: | |||
*Either make the argument number explicit:<br><nowiki>{{site|1=https://www.railml.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=71&|2=Heidrun Jost BaliseGroup and its attributes railML forum post}}</nowiki> | |||
*Or escape all equality signs via {{wikipedia|url encoding}} in the first argument and with {{wikipedia|HTML entities}} in the second argument:<br>{{site|https://www.railml.org/forum/index.php?t%3Dmsg&goto%3D71&|Heidrun Jost BaliseGroup and its attributes railML forum post}}|reminder}} | |||
*Optional | *Optional | ||
**'''2''' or ''text'': the link text. If it is empty, the link target will be used as link text. This argument can be used both named or unnamed. | **'''2''' or ''text'': the link text. If it is empty, the link target will be used as link text. This argument can be used both named or unnamed. '''Please, recognize [[#note|the note above]].''' | ||
**''date'': the publication date of the file | **''date'': the publication date of the file | ||
**''type'': the file type, e.g. PDF | **''type'': the file type, e.g. PDF |
Revision as of 13:49, 17 May 2023
Usage
The template can be used to mark external links.
This template grants that external links will be collected in category:External Link. So we keep an overview of external links and control their actuality routinely.
For Links to pages on the railML®-site (https://railml.org), please use Template:Site.
Please, consider, that the template contains an exception for links to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), as there are too many links to W3C data types — we want to avoid the reading flow being disturbed.
Dependencies
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Arguments
The template has an obligatory and five optional argument:
- Obligatory; unnamed
- 1: the link target, e.g. https://uic.org. Please, recognize the note below.
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- Optional
- 2 or text: the link text. If it is empty, the link target will be used as link text. This argument can be used both named or unnamed. Please, recognize the note above.
- date: the publication date of the file
- type: the file type, e.g. PDF
- lang: the language of the link target file, e.g. EN. For EN, FR, DE, NL, NO, CZ and ES a flag will be displayed. In all other cases the input string will be returned.
- size: the file size — use only for very big files beyond 25 M!
- visited: the date when the file was visited
- inlang: en (=default), de or fr for a notice in the language of the context
- comment: anything that does not fit into the other parameters; a string to be displayed directly
If the second argument is unnamed (example: {{external|https://example.ex|some example text}}), it will be interpreted as link text. If the second argument is named (example:{{external|https://example.ex|type=some file format}}), it will be interpreted according to the argument name.
Examples
Code | Output |
{{external|https://www.uic.org}} | https://www.uic.org (external link) |
{{external|https://www.uic.org|International Union of Railways}} | International Union of Railways (external link) |
{{external|https://www.uic.org|type=HTML}} | https://www.uic.org (external link, HTML) |
{{external|https://www.uic.org|lang=EN|text=UIC}} | UIC (external link, ) |
{{external|https://www.uic.org|UIC|type=HTML|lang=EN}} | UIC (external link, HTML, ) |
{{external|https://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#language}} | https://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#language |