[ic] nested tmp tags

[Peter]

On 06/07/2008 02:36 PM, Rick Bragg wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 15:50 -0700, Peter wrote:
>> On 06/06/2008 08:59 AM, tom at readyink.com wrote:
>>> I could not find much in the docs about nesting tags. It says [tmp] can
>>> not be nested.  I added code to log_transaction with [tmp] that I could
>>> not get to work until I saw the whole thing was inside one big tmp.  When
>>> I removed that enclosing tmp everything worked.  However I see two other
>>> tmp's inside the enclosing tmp in the official distribution that are
>>> apparently ok.  I don't have an immediate issue but would like to
>>> understand this better, wish I had found better documentationm, and also
>>> wish there were a syntax checker for ITL.
>>> tom friedel - readyink.com
>> I have no idea why it works, it's certainly not supposed to.
>>
>> What you can do with your vars is to use:
>> [tmpn interpolate=1] ... [/tmpn]
>>
>> Peter
> 
> 
>>From my understanding:
> [tmpn] [/tmpn] means set variable on server only for this page and do
> not interpolate anything inside. 

Correct, but the interpolation can explicitly be overwritten with 
interpolate=1 and it will act just like [tmp]...[/tmp].  That comes in 
handy because you can use [tmpn] inside [tmp] but you can't use [tmp] 
inside [tmp].

Peter