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[Ben Wilson]

On 10/3/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> It's possible but not likely.  I've spent a *lot* of time over the
> past five years thinking about hierarchical group implementations,
> and I don't like anything we've come up with better than the current
> Group.Name system.
>
> That said, this past week I heard through a couple of off-list
> discussions that DocuWiki now has a good hierarchical grouping
> system -- if someone wanted to check it out and report back it
> might be worth looking at.

I just tried out DokuWiki, and it uses colons for namespace
separation.[1] Thus 'Profiles:BenWilson' equates to Profiles.BenWilson
in PmWiki. The "wiki.d" structure is nested sub-directories:
data/pages/Profiles/BenWilson.

In the example above, it is also possible to create a sub-directory of
Profiles:BenWilson, which produces: data/pages/Profiles/BenWilson.

Pages are distinguished from directories by the '.txt' file extension,
and page metadata (including changes) are stored in a separate data
file (/data/meta/profiles/BenWilson.meta, .changes, and .index)

-- 
Ben Wilson

[1]: http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:namespaces also explains how
pages relate to one another and their root level.