[pmwiki-users] Automatic linking

[Bellave Jayaram]

Karl,
	This feature has a lot in common with a Automatic
Include{Page|Section|...} kind of feature that would greatly facilitate
Content Reuse where the referenced content gets automatically included if it
exists.

	In the case of a glossary, I am just wondering if there is a way
that each entry could define a value in a global variable array and if there
could be a markup such as (:autolink :) which would lookup each word in the
page against that global variable and create the link if it hasn't done so
already (it probably needs to keep track of modification time of each
glossary entry too in the array so that only those entries that are later
than the last time it ran are checked). This could still be quite slow.

	I don't know much about the internals of Pmwiki yet. This is just
something that occurred to me.

Jayaram


-----Original Message-----
From: pmwiki-users-bounces at pmichaud.com
[mailto:pmwiki-users-bounces at pmichaud.com] On Behalf Of Karl Loncarek
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 2:38 AM
To: pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com
Subject: [pmwiki-users] Automatic linking

Hi,

I'm searching for a script or way to achieve the following:

I'm using one group of my PMwiki installtion as some kind of glossary. As 
you sure know within a glossary there are for sure a lot of Cross 
references (or crosslinks). I'm collecting the entries in this glossary 
with pagelist. Works great.

I'm searching for a possibility to automate the link creation. Currently 
I have to edit each entry and add the links manually which is quite a lot 
work.

I haven'T found a recipe so far for that task. Do you have any idea how 
this coudl be realized? 
Currently I'm thinking of taking the pagelist result and checking each 
text of an glossary entry whether there is a word also in the pagelist 
and then creating automatically a link to it. The Group where this should 
work should be selectable.

I could imagine using parts of the pagelist code to create a temporary 
list of available files and names (titles) but I fear this would slow 
down the processing very much.

Any ideas, hints?

-- 
Bye
Karl (aka Klonk)


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