Category:Parser extensions

''Note: please do not add extensions directly to this category if you can place them in one or more of the subcategories. The extensions remaining in this category either have no clear parent category or are waiting for someone to sort them into the correct subcategory.''

Parser extensions change or enhance the way MediaWiki interperts Wiki markup. At a high level they can be grouped into three categories:  adding standard token types: The standard approach to customized MediaWiki markup is to add new markup that looks like the built-in MediaWiki XML tags, template , or link markup. For examples, please see  Category:Parser function extensions Category:Tag extensions Category:Variable extensions   adding custom token types: Some extensions define new token types. For example, Extension:ParserPhase2, adds several token types: ,  , and. For examples, please see Category:Extended syntax extensions.

Adding new token types can only be done by adding functions to one or more of the various parser and page output hooks:  Category:ParserBeforeStrip extensions rely on the ParserBeforeStrip hook. Category:OutputPageBeforeHTML extensions rely on the OutputPageBeforeHTML hook.</li> Category:ParserBeforeTidy extensions rely on the ParserBeforeTidy hook.</li> Category:ParserAfterTidy extensions rely on the ParserAfterTidy hook.</li> </ul> </li> fundamental changes to the parser: A few extensions attempt fundamentally change the parsing strategy so that markup from other sorts of wikis and content management can be used (must be used?) instead of the standard wiki markup. Like token changes, one must implement these extensions by adding functions to the parser and page output hooks.</li> </ol>

See also:
 * Manual:Extending wiki markup