[pmwiki-users] Greedy targets= with trails?

[Martin Fick]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 10:42:43AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 07:06:07PM -0500, Martin Fick wrote:
> >   I am using pmwiki2.0.0 and I noticed some strange behavior
> > with the  targets= header index.
> > 
> >   When a file gets saved it seems to update this target=
> > greedily, particularly with respect to trails.  It seems to
> > add the name of the previous and next pages to this.  This
> > information can then become outdated if the trail is changed
> > and will be  incorrectly reported by pagelists.
> 
> It's possible to turn off target= information entirely, but 
> this will disable the links= option and cause the refcount.php 
> script to stop working.
> 
> > I would prefer to run my site without any duplicate meta
> > data in the file headers. 
> 
> Does this mean you would also prefer that PmWiki not save the
> title= attribute?  Technically that is "duplicate meta data" also,
> and disabling it will cause title markups to work somewhat incorrectly.

  Yes, excpet that I want to eat my cake too and have the
pmwiki internal know how to extract the title from a page
without looking at a header.  It almost seems like the page
meta data attributes should be something returned by the
pagestore since they are effectively a caching mechanism. 
This way various other models could be plugged in, including
one that does not cache at all.


  Despite my unusual desire for a slower system, :) it does
seem to me that saving the prev and next links for trails is
just begging for problems and wrong since there is no current
update mechanism for this in pmwiki.  Do you think this is
something you will fix?

  -Martin