ikiwiki/ forum/ What's the difference between tag and taglink?

It occurred to me the difference between tag and taglink, as described in http://ikiwiki.info/ikiwiki/directive/tag/ is just that the latter enable the option to have a displayed form of the tag different from the tag itself, e.g. a tag foo can be displayed as bar using

[[!taglink  foo|bar]]

while with tag you can only display the tag foo as itself

[[!tag  foo]]

Is that it?

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\[[!tag]] does not produce any output in the body of the page, but stores an invisible tag (which, in the default templates, gets displayed in the footer of the page).

For instance, this

Here is some text about badgers
\[[!tag badger]]

or this

\[[!tag badger]]
Here is some text about badgers

or even this

Here is some text about \[[!tag badger]]badgers

will all come out like this:

Edit | RecentChanges | etc.
----
Here is some text about badgers
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tags: badger

\[[!taglink]] produces a WikiLink in the body of the page, and stores an invisible tag like \[[!tag]].

So this:

Some text about \[[!tag mushrooms]] and toadstools

renders like this

Edit | RecentChanges | etc.
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Some text about _mushrooms_ and toadstools
----
tags: mushrooms

where _mushrooms_ represents a hyperlink.

Comment by smcv — Sun Aug 19 11:05:35 2012
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