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Template:Item

The structured data item contains all parameters (both numbered ones and named ones) passed to the {{Item}} template. For example, {{Item|Alice|Bob|best=Eve}} creates an item with components 1=Alice, 2=Bob, best=Eve.

Multiple items will be passed to an example recipient template {{User:Petr Matas/sandbox/Pets}} like this:

{{User:Petr Matas/sandbox/Pets|owner=Bob
| {{Item|name=Tom|animal=cat|legs=4}}
| {{Item|name=Jerry|animal=mouse|legs=4}}
| {{Item|name=Tweety|animal=bird|legs=2}}
}}

The code of the called template {{User:Petr Matas/sandbox/Pets}} is:

These are {{{owner}}}'s pets:
{{#invoke:Item|each|template=Show pet|
|*}}
They have {{#invoke:Item|gather|parameter=legs|template=Sum}} legs in total.

• The code of the 1st used template {{Show pet}} is:

{{{name}}} is a {{{animal}}}{{#if:{{{legs|}}}| with {{{legs}}} legs}}.

• The code of the 2nd used template {{Sum}} is:

{{#invoke:math|sum}}

• For further explanations see #invoke:item, #invoke:math and the following chapter.

See Template:Component.

See Template:Format item.

In the recipient template, use:

{{#invoke:Item|each|template=TransformationTemplate|Separator|Prefix|Suffix|...}}

This transforms all items using a given template. TransformationTemplate is called for each item with the parameters that the item has been created with, plus any additional parameters passed to #invoke (see {{Format item}} for details). The transformed items are separated with Separator and surrounded with Prefix and Suffix (whitespace is not stripped from these three optional parameters).

The template {{User:Petr Matas/sandbox/Pets}} from the example produces the list of pets using the following code (note the use of newline as a Separator and * as a Prefix to produce list items):

{{#invoke:Item|each|template=Show pet|
|*}}

In the recipient template, use {{#invoke:Item|gather|parameter=ParameterName|template=TransformationTemplate}} to gather the given parameter from all items. TransformationTemplate will be called once and the gathered parameters (one parameter from each item) will be passed to it.

The template {{User:Petr Matas/sandbox/Pets}} from the example produces the total number of legs using {{#invoke:Item|gather|parameter=legs|template=Sum}}.

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