Allow nesting translate tag inside tvar content
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	Pols12
	Mar 22 2020, 8:27 PM

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Hi!

It would be nice if we could use translate variables (tvar) just like templates. It would be particularly useful for marking a page containing ref tags or templates.

I mean

<translate>
This is a text content<tvar name="ref"><ref><translate>This is a ref content</translate></ref></tvar> which contains some ref tags.
</translate>

In fact, a recursive parsing would probably be needed, because we might want put <tvar> inside <translate> inside <tvar> inside <translate>…
But just a second level would already be a really nice improvement! =)

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m:Template:Tmpl can be used as a workaround for the time being:

{{tmpl
|0=<translate>This is a text content<tvar name="ref"><ref>$1</ref></tvar> which contains some ref tags.</translate>
|1=<translate>This is a ref content</translate>
}}

And it can easily be made recursive by simply using {{tmpl}}s within {{tmpl}}s.

There is a simple native workaround I forgot, for <ref> use case:

<translate>
This is a text content<tvar name="ref"><ref name="ref1" /></tvar> which contains some ref tags.
</translate>

<references>
<ref name="ref1"><translate>This is a ref content</translate></ref>
</references>

The drawback of that is that the footnote text is at the end of the page (both when editing the source page text and when translating on Special:Translate), so people might lose the context.

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