I often find myself wrapping the same boiler plate around ?img img directives, so I tried to encapsulate it using the following ?template:

<div class="image">
[\[!img <TMPL_VAR raw_href>
size="<TMPL_VAR raw_size>"

<TMPL_IF alt>
  alt="<TMPL_VAR raw_alt>"
<TMPL_ELSE>
  <TMPL_IF caption>
    alt="<TMPL_VAR raw_alt>"
  <TMPL_ELSE>
    alt="[pic]"
  </TMPL_IF>
</TMPL_IF>

]]
<TMPL_IF caption>
<p><TMPL_VAR raw_caption></p>
</TMPL_IF>
</div>

The result, even with htmlscrubber disabled, is mangled, something like

<div class="image">
<span class="createlink"><a href="http://jmtd.net/cgi?
    page=size&amp;from=log0.000000old_new_test&amp;do=create"
    rel="nofollow">?</a>size</span>

</div>

Any suggestions gladly received. -- Jon

Well, you should be able to do things like this, and in my testing, I can. I used your exact example above (removing the backslash escape) and invoked it as: [[!template id=test href=himom.png size=100x]]

And got just what you would expect.

I don't know what went wrong for you, but I don't see a bug here. My guess, at the moment, is that you didn't specify the required href and size parameters when using the template. If I leave those off, I of course reproduce what you reported, since the img directive gets called with no filename, and so assumes the size parameter is the image to display.. done? --Joey

Hmm, eek. Just double-checked, and done a full rebuild. No dice! Version 3.20100831. Feel free to leave this marked done, It probably is PEBKAC. I shall look again in day time. -- Jon

As always, if you'd like to mail me a larger test case that reproduces a problem for you, I can take a look at it. --Joey

Thank you for the offer. I might still take you up on it. I've just proven that this does work for a clean repo / bare bones test case. -- Jon Figured it out. The problem was I'd copied a page (old_new) which had two images embedded in it to test. I'd stored the images under a subdir "old_new". The new page was called "old_new_test" and the images thus could not be found by a pagespec "some-image.jpg". Adjusting the href argument to the template (consequently the src argument to img) to "old_new/some-image.jpg" fixed it all. done, PEBKAC. Thank you for your time -- Jon