[pmwiki-users] pagelist template brainstorming

[marc]

Patrick R. Michaud said...
> Today I had an idea about improving pagelist templates
>
>     ||!Page         ||!Author            ||!Modified        ||
>     (:each {=$Group}:)
>     ||{=$Group}     ||||||
>     (:each:)
>     ||{=$FullName}  ||{=$LastModifiedBy} ||{=$LastModified} ||
>     (:last:)
>     {$$PageCount} pages.
>     [[#templateend]]
> 
> Here, (:each {=$Group}:) says to output the markup that follows
> for every page where {=$Group} results in a value different from
> the previous iteration.  With this formulation our 1000 page, 10 group 
> list now produces 2 + 10*1 + 1000*1 + 1 == 1013 lines of markup, far 
> less than 9000 lines of the original template.
> 
> Does this approach and markup make sense to others?

It certainly does. I don't use pagelist much, but every time I do I find 
myself relearning the syntax; the proposed syntax is much more 
intuitive, at least to me it is. Obviously, the speed increase is a good 
thing.
 
> While we're on the topic, another desirable feature we can introduce
> with this approach would be the ability to set default pagelist
> options from within a pagelist template itself.

Excellent.

> So, again my questions are:  Would markups such as these make it
> easier or more difficult for people creating pagelist templates?

Oh, easier, definitely easier.

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Cheers,
Marc