[pmwiki-users] Subpages

[John Rankin]

On Tuesday, 30 May 2006 10:46 PM, Joachim Durchholz <jo at durchholz.org> wrote:
>Dr Fred C schrieb:
>> Subpages might work fine for many applications with some savings in code 
>> and parsing.  Perhaps it's a good place to start.
>
>I'd second that.

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>Assume I have a blob of text. With sections and subsections (and 
>subsubsections etc.), so that the final sections are manageable chunks 
>of text.
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>So what I need is a simple way to split a sectioned page into a group 
>with subpages. And, vice versa, to join the pages of a group into a 
>single sectioned page. (I just noted that the term "subpage" is 
>ambiguous in a context with hierarchical groups - it could mean sections 
>of a page that are separately editable, or it could mean pages
>of a group.)

Try http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/SubpageMarkup as a modest
starting point.

Note that it adds hierarchical pages, not hierarchical groups.
And it adds one level of subpage only. So instead of splitting
a page into a *group* and subpages, it allows you to split the page
into a *page* and subpages. In your example, you might have a page
called Linux.InstallationInstructions and it could include:

...
* [[,Step 1]]
* [[,Step 2]]
* [[,Step 3]]

The page Linux.InstallationInstructions,Step3 might include:

... as you saw in [[,Step 1]], the ...

This doesn't do everything you want, but it might be a partial 
solution. I have been reluctant to refine it in the absence of
a real use case -- I didn't want to create a solution looking 
for a problem.

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JR
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John Rankin