[Pmwiki-users] Hierarchical groups - possible notation

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 03:33:52AM -0500, John Feezell wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 17:42:07 -0600, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com>  
> wrote:
> 
> Perhaps the following notation, or some variation of it, could work
> for hierarchical groups with relative references.
> 
>  Let
>    the last name always be the existing pagename
>    [[pagename]] resolve to replacement for existing pagename
>    [[.group.pagename]] resolve to replacement for existing pagename
>    [[/group.pagename]] resolve to top level group with pagename

This eliminates the '.' versus '/' distinction for when to suppress
leading group names.  Yes, one can use the parenthesis for this,
but I like the feature that I can use PmWiki.DocumentationIndex 
in normal text and have the "PmWiki" displayed while PmWiki/PmWikiUsers 
suppresses the leading "PmWiki"...

>    [[(group.group).pagename]]

I'll have to veto the use of parens for group clustering, as they're
already being used to suppress display of that portion of the name
(and I don't want to change this behavior).  But this is indeed a
useful idea, although it may be a little difficult to explain to
others.

Pm