[pmwiki-users] Hierarchy use case: simple demonstrator

John Rankin john.rankin at affinity.co.nz
Fri Jun 9 00:58:06 CDT 2006


On Wednesday, 7 June 2006 3:51 PM, John Rankin <john.rankin at affinity.co.nz> wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 3 June 2006 12:35 PM, Joachim Durchholz <jo at durchholz.org> wrote:
>>>> Assume there's a feature Foo discussed on PmWiki. It turns out the page 
>>>> becomes too long, so there's a subpage Foo.Talk associated with Foo. Now 
>>>> if Foo is itself in group Cookbook, the .Talk page can be reached under 
>>>> Cookbook.Foo.Talk.
>>> 
>I found it helpful to build a simple example. See
>http://www.wikipublisher.org/wiki/index.php?n=Hierarchy.Demonstrator
>
>Click around to see how it fits together.
>
>AFAICT changing "subpages" to "subgroup" and "Subpage of" to "Member of"
>would align the subpage and subgroup terminologies. As Jo says, they are
functionally equivalent.
>
>>
>>I envision a unified hierarchy. I.e. Cookbook.Foo.Talk is the text 
>>snippet inside the Cookbook.Foo hierarchy.
>>Whether it's just a part of the Cookbook.Foo page (i.e. a subpage, in my 
>>terminology), or whether it's a separate page located in the 
>>Cookbook.Foo group, that should be of little concern: URLs to that text 
>>snippet shouldn't have to change just because an author chose to switch 
>>from one configuration to the other.
>>
>
>What I have set up seems to meet much of Jo's specification, for one 
>level of subgroup nesting.
>
>-- 
>JR
>--
>John Rankin
>
No-one has any comments??






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