{{DISPLAYTITLE}} notation causes problems with certain HTML entities like & (Ampersand)
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Hello Cindy,

when using some characters like & in the {{DISPLAYTITLE}} parser function, they will be replaced by their corresponding HTML entity.

Steps to reproduce: Create any page with something like:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:Web & Wine}}

Go to SMW Browse Properties, or select the page via ASK query. The resulting link will be correct, but the page name will be:

Web &amp; Wine

I guess this has to do with the displaytitle parser function of MW itself.

We're using MW 1.25 and SMW 2.4

I've tryed around and found that the bug is not caused by {{displaytitle itself, nor the Semantic Title extension.

The problem seems to lie in the implementation of SMW's "native" displaytitle support, probably this pull request: https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/pull/1410

Thanks for reporting this! I agree with your assessment that this is SMW related.

I'm not sure "invalid" is the correct status, but I believe it was resolved that this is an issue with SMW, not SemanticTitle, right?