Current spec:

• %META{}% variables are rendered only in the template of the view script.
• %ANYOTHER{}% variables are rendered in topic text and templates/skins

Proposed new spec:

• Make this consistent, e.g. render all variable (meta and others) at all times (view, rdiff, oops etc).

At first, the implementation looks like straight forward:

• Add TWiki::handleMetaTags to TWiki::handleCommonTags
• Remove the extra call to TWiki::handleMetaTags in the view script.

There is one complication: TWiki::handleMetaTags expects the meta object, which is not known to TWiki::handleCommonTags. Further, the meta data has already been stripped from the text data when TWiki::handleCommonTags is called.

This enhancement should go hand in hand with SimplifyInternalMetaDataHandling.

-- PeterThoeny - 07 Sep 2003