[pmwiki-users] Nested groups

[Neil Herber]

At 2005-06-02  09:55 PM +0200, Joachim Durchholz is rumored to have said:
>One of the problems that Pm mentioned was "no good default policies when 
>incomplete page names are given". I interpret this to mean things like: if 
>the URL is pmwiki.php?n=Cookbook, it will be redirected to 
>pmwiki.php?n=Cookbook.Cookbook. There's no good way to extend that kind of 
>policy to a hierarchical group structure.

I was intrigued by the ideas in your post and so I tried an experiment. I 
first entered this URL:
http://neil.eton.ca/wiki/index.php/Main/HomePage

This made me think that the default name (index page if you will) for an 
"incomplete" name should be "HomePage" (I think the actual name is 
controlled by a variable).

Then just for fun I extended the URL like this:

http://neil.eton.ca/wiki/index.php/Main/HomePage/Elsewhere

Which took me to a page asking me to define the content of Elsewhere.

The strange thing (to me at least) is that this looked like a hierarchical 
page but in fact was a top level page in the new group "HomePage". I found 
this out by doing a search for the term "elsewhere".

I'm not sure if this anything other than the blatantly obvious way that 
PmWiki is supposed to work, but it did make me pause.


Neil

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