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<h1>${content_refs} - References to Content Chunks</h1><p>
Content chunks and variables can be referred to using this format. This is
evaluated before any other variable reference is.
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<blockquote>
<strong>${<em>name</em>}</strong>
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<p>
Content chunks can refer to other chunks, URLs, or use deferred references,
up to 30 levels deep.
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<a name="Default_Values" id="Default_Values"><h3>Default Values</h3></a><p>
If you wish to refer to a content item or variable, but are not sure if it
exists, you can provide a default value by following the content name
with a question mark and the default value.
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<blockquote>
<strong>${<em>name</em>?<em>defaultvalue</em>}</strong>
</blockquote>
<a name="Parameterized_References" id="Parameterized_References"><h3>Parameterized References</h3></a><p>
Content references can also be <em>parameterised</em> references; this means
that they act like function calls, in a way, allowing you to pass
in parameters. They look like this:
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<blockquote>
<strong>${<em>name</em>: <em>parameter</em>="<em>value</em>" ...}</strong>
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<p>
The parameters are declared in the XML style.
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<blockquote>
<strong>Note:</strong> the parameters' values must not contain further content
references, due to a limitation in the way WebMake parses
content refs. If you want to refer to a content item from
within a template, pass in the <strong>name</strong> of the content item,
and get the template to expand it; see the example below.
</blockquote>
<p>
For example, if you set up a template item like this:
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<!--etsafe-->
<pre>
<template name="mytemplate">
You passed in ${name}, and its value is \"${${name}}\".
</template>
</pre><!--/etsafe-->
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<p>
and a content item like this:
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<p>
<!--etsafe-->
<pre>
<content name="foo">
Hi, I'm foo!
</content>
</pre><!--/etsafe-->
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Then a reference to:
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<blockquote>
<strong>${mytemplate: name="foo"}</strong>
</blockquote>
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will expand to:
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**You passed in foo, and its value is \"Hi, I'm foo!\".
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