%SEP% variable not always honoured

The value of the %SEP% variable defined in the active skin is not used when rendering certain specific "system" topics.

Test case

1. copy twiki.tmpl to skin.tmpl ; view.tmpl to view.skin.tmpl
2. edit skin.tmpl and change %TMPL:DEF{"sep"}% | %TMPL:END% to %TMPL:DEF{"sep"}% XXXXX %TMPL:END%
3. edit view.skin.tmpl and change %TMPL:INCLUDE{"twiki"}% to %TMPL:INCLUDE{"skin"}%
4. edit Sandbox.WebPreferences and set the skin to skin
5. point your browser at Sandbox.WebHome, the separator will be |
6. point your browser at a Sandbox.TestTopic1 the separator will be XXXXX
7. edit twiki.tmpl and set sep to ==%TMPL:DEF{"sep"}% YYYYY %TMPL:END% ; the affected pages will use YYYYY as the separator.

Topics which are known to exhibit this behaviour: WebHome, WebIndex, WebChanges

Topics which don't have this problem: WebSearch, WebTopicList, WebSearch, WebPreferences

I have not observed the problem on any user created pages.

Environment

-- MattWilkie - 06 Nov 2002

Follow up

Fix record

The fix appears to be to skip step 3 above, do not change %TMPL:INCLUDE{"twiki"}% to %TMPL:INCLUDE{"skin"}%

thanks to TomKagan for figuring this out (details at SeeSkinDev)

-- MattWilkie - 12 Dec 2002