[Pmwiki-users] Re: can pmwiki handle hierarchical content?
Stefan Candea
stefan
Mon Oct 18 14:21:17 CDT 2004
> True, but this restriction would mean that we have to know in advance
> if a particular page name is going to refer to a "directory/group"
> or "file/pagecontent". I.e., if Linux.Hardware starts out as a simple
> page
> containing a list of popular hardware, and someone later decides that it
> needs to be refactored into Linux.Hardware.SoundCards,
> Linux.Hardware.Printers,
> etc., then there are a *lot* of links that have to be rewritten to make
> this happen.
I believe that similar page names and group names can coexist. Thus no
need to know in advance. As it is today in PmWiki. However, even with
current version, a page called LinuxHardware can evolve into a
LinuxHardware/SoundCards and a LinuxHardware/Printers page. In current
version this happens in root (if it was in a group it would already have
started to become pretty ugly), however, the level should be irrelevant.
>>> Let's suppose that I'm in the page Linux.Hardware. Now I want to
>>> link to the page Linux.Hardware.SoundCards. What markup do I use to
do >>> this? [[SoundCards]] won't work, because that would be
>>> Linux.SoundCards (i.e.,
>>> "[[A]] should refer only to pages within the group").
>>
>> * To link to Linux.Hardware.SoundCards we would have to use
>> [[Hardware/SoundCards]] (i.e. in current context/group subgroup
>> Hardware,
>> page SoundCards) and this, even if our current page is called "Hardware"
>
> This is likely to annoy authors, that moving from Hardware to any of
> its subpages requires that 'Hardware' be repeated in each link.
> Especially
> if the page's name is on the longish side. There needs to be a shortcut.
>
Is it any different today? Let's recap: We have a page called
LinuxHardware and (using current version) we want to link to
LinuxHardware/SoundCards (by creating new group), so LinuxHardware repeats
in all links as well.
> How does someone link from Linux.Hardware to Hardware.PowerTools?
> We can't use [[Hardware/PowerTools]] because that would result in
> Linux.Hardware.PowerTools.
First we need some 'root' referencing.
Similar to file system notation this becomes: [[/Hardware/PowerTools]]
>
> How does someone link from Linux.Hardware.SoundCards back to
> Linux.Software?
> We can't use [[Linux/Software]] because that would result in
> Linux.Hardware.Linux.Software.
Indeed, we need to relate to the root for absolute path: [[/Linux/Software]]
To implement 'root' referencing (given technical constraints) we could use
the root WikiPage (e.g. PmWiki/..), '/' or something generic like root/..
> Again, there are obvious (to some) answers to these questions--I'm just
> walking through the whole process one or two steps at a time to make
> sure all of the bases get covered. Have patience. :-)
>
> Pm
>
--
Stefan
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