[Pmwiki-users] Why groups?

[Christian Ridderström]

Hi

I still haven't had time to read (and understand) all the mails on 
hiearchical groups, but since I just had a thought I want to write it down 
before I forget it.

While reading some of it, I wondered why we have groups at all... why must 
we say that a "group can contain subgroups". Couldn't we instead talk 
about this as a page having subpages? The pages would then be organized as 
a tree (or many trees). Here's an example where the tree is drawn 
from left->right rather than from top->down as a tree diagrams 
are usually drawn (with a comment to the right).

  /
  |-- Page1			- A page at the root of the tree
  |	
  |-- Page2			- Another page at the root
  |
  |-- Page3
  |
  |-- Page4			- A page that has subpages
  |   |
  |   |-- Page5			- A subpage w/o subpages
  |   |   |
  |   |   `-- Page6		- A subpage with subpages
  |   |       |
  |   |       `-- Page7	
  |   |
  |   `-- Page8			- Another subpage of Page4
  |
  `-- Page9

What would a 'group' correspond to here? Is that simply the parent of the
page?
  
Ok... I have to get back to work now, so I might simply reply to this 
myself later tonight :-)

/Christian

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Christian Ridderstr?m                           http://www.md.kth.se/~chr