So why use an empty tag at all? An empty tag is seemingly only helpful and appropriate when you’re doing something that cannot be done prior to template execution. If the data can be determined when the TemplateContext
is being formed, just set the value there.
(There are some other applications reusable/distributable code as well, if you don’t have access to the C# which forms the model. The opinion above assumes this is your own code, and you have access to model formation. If you don’t, then sure, empty tags could be helpful.)
An identifier tag is like an empty tag, but it takes in a single “identifier,” which is passed in as a string value. This is not an expression. See below for more on this.
The function signature is the same as an empty tag, you just have a string parameter at the front: