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-=What is a web tag or token?=
+=What is a web tag? =
-Put simply, what Cumulus 1 calls a web tag, and MX calls a web token, is included in a Cumulus template file to indicate where Cumulus should insert values when it produces an output file. The concept of [[Customised_templates#What_is_meant_by_.27Cumulus_processes_templates.27|processing templates]] is explained in another article.  The output file can be a [[Customised_templates#HTML_5_-_a_very_quick_guide_to_structure|web page]], a [[Feels_Like#HTML_code_to_translate_web_tags_to_JavaScript_variables_.28as_modified_for_additional_parameters.29|JavaScript file]], a PHP script, or a [[Xml_webtags|eXtensible Mark-up Language (XML)]] file.
+Put simply, a web tag is included in a Cumulus template file to indicate where Cumulus should insert values when it produces an output file. The concept of [[Customised_templates#What_is_meant_by_.27Cumulus_processes_templates.27|processing templates]] is explained in another article.  The output file can be a [[Customised_templates#HTML_5_-_a_very_quick_guide_to_structure|web page]], a [[Feels_Like#HTML_code_to_translate_web_tags_to_JavaScript_variables_.28as_modified_for_additional_parameters.29|JavaScript file]], a PHP script, or a [[Xml_webtags|eXtensible Mark-up Language (XML)]] file.
+== Why does MX talk about tokens? ==
+MX uses a '''token parser''' to read the web tags, so if diagnostic output refers to tokens, it is saying the attempt to actually work out what was required from the web tag with its tag name and parameters has encountered a problem.
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