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At the last count, a 3.5.x version of MX produces nine and a half million '''web tags'''! But the file mentioned in previous section contains just 717 items (later versions of MX raise this count by another forty tags or so). How come this discrepancy? | #At the last count, a 3.5.x version of MX produces ''nine and a half million'' '''web tags'''! | ||
#But the file mentioned in previous section contains just 717 items (later versions of MX raise this count by another forty tags or so). | |||
#How come this discrepancy? | |||
Well each web tag has the general format <tt><#tag_name optional_input_parameter optional_output_parameter></tt> and it is adding these optional parameters that allow 717 tag names to define 9½ million values! | *Well each web tag has the general format <tt><#tag_name optional_input_parameter optional_output_parameter></tt> and it is adding these optional parameters that allow 717 tag names to define 9½ million values! | ||
Consequently, this article describes: | Consequently, this article describes: | ||
*Over 7 hundred web tags | *Over 7 hundred web tags -'''THIS ARTICLE MAY NOT CONTAIN ALL WEB TAGS AVAILABLE IN LATEST VERSION - It depends on someone updating this article if the developer does not have time to do so''' | ||
*A score of input parameters that modify some of those tags | *A score of input parameters that modify some of those tags | ||
*The components that make up output parameters | *The components that make up output parameters | ||
** some control number of decimal places | ** some control number of decimal places | ||
** one controls whether decimal comma appears | ** one controls whether decimal comma appears | ||
**the majority modify almost all web tags that report a time and/or date | **the majority modify the output from almost all web tags that report a time and/or date | ||
*The way that some of those date modifiers are used for naming NOAA reports | *The way that some of those date modifiers are used for naming NOAA reports | ||
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==Applicability by version and build== | ==Applicability by version and build== | ||
The tip at the start of this article tells you how to check which tags are available in whatever build of Cumulus you are actually using. Given how often a new release alters either what web tags are available or what parameters can be used with particular web tags, it is not possible for the tables below to | The tip at the start of this article tells you how to check which tags are available in whatever build of Cumulus you are actually using. Given how often a new release alters either what web tags are available or what parameters can be used with particular web tags, it is not possible for the tables below to precisely list all web tags at any version, or which modifiers are available at your version. | ||
Because Cumulus 2 is no longer available, it has been ignored in the tables below. | Because Cumulus 2 is no longer available, it has been ignored in the tables below. It never really worked for web page generation, so if you happen to have installed Cumulus 2 from when it was available, you probably don't care which web tags it supports. | ||
[[File:Badge v1.png]]This badge is used to highlight text that applies to Cumulus 1. | [[File:Badge v1.png]]This badge is used to highlight text that applies to Cumulus 1. | ||