[pmwiki-users] beta25 + trailmenu issue

[Christian Schlatter]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 12:43:16AM -0500, Christian Schlatter wrote:
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> InterMap links (and links with ':') were never intended to be
> accepted as trail entries -- only page links are supposed to be
> valid on a trail.  
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> Part of the reasoning behind this is that a link to something that
> is not a PmWiki page can't really know anything about the trail.
> (And if it is a PmWiki page, then why not just use a normal page link?)

That makes sense to me. The thing is that the trailmenu cookbook uses 
trails to generate a menu list, and I think that menu list entries 
should not be restricted to PmWiki page links only. I've also written a 
custom pagelist FPL function to generate dropdown lists from a trail, 
since there is no standard markup for dropdown lists available yet. 
There I have the same issue, I'd like to include URLs and intermap links 
  in the dropdown list.


> So, my initial reaction is that InterMap and url links should
> not be part of trails.  (But it's open for discussion.)

I doubt that I'll have a lot of backup on this, but I'd vote for it ;-)

ChristianS