[pmwiki-users] Tag - (Was: RFC: refactored introduction to wiki markup)

[christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com]

On 12 May 2006, John Rankin wrote:

> On Thursday, 11 May 2006 11:50 PM, christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com wrote:
> >On 11 May 2006, John Rankin wrote:
> >
> >> On Thursday, 11 May 2006 10:54 AM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> >> >One of the issues with putting categories in the distributed docs
> >> >is that it "eats" category names that the site might want to use
> >> >for other purposes.  It also presumes the existence of something
> >> >to display the category listing (which isn't currently the case
> >> >in the distribution).
> >> 
> >> OK, scratch that idea. However, the proposal to categorize
> >> documentation pages is still valid. A few options:
> >><snip>
> >
> >I've been using an approach where I "tag" a page with a keyword that isn't 
> >visible and then use (:pagelist:) to generate the listing. Today I'm 
> >simply doing something like this:
> >
> >	(:comment pmwiki-markup-documentation:)
> >
> >But it'd look better if we'd write something like:
> >
> >	(:tag pmwiki-markup-documentation:)
> >
> >Then maybe we could expand (:pagelist:) to work as follows
> >
> >	(:pagelist tag=pmwiki-markup-documentation:)
> >
> >There may be much better alternatives to the word "tag" of
> >course.
> >
> Nice; and "tag" is good!
> 
> I would add this to an enhanced "page attributes" function
> suggested a while ago, whereby all page metadata is separated 
> from page content into an attributes form.

Saving it as an attribute makes sense, but then for ease of use you should 
probably be able to edit the attributes on the edit page. I don't know if 
that's possible.

"label" could be another alternative. 

Patrick/John, would you like me to add this to PITS for now?

/C

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