[Pmwiki-users] Nested pages/groups

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 03:17:08PM -0400, J. Perkins wrote:
> One of the things that I would like to use a wiki for is the 
> collaborative documentation of software libraries. Ideally, I would have 
> a page that describes the library along with a list of namespaces 
> contained in the library. Clicking on a namespace brings up a page with 
> summary text and a list of classes. Clicking on a class brings up a list 
> of methods. This is one place that the Group.Page naming scheme of 
> PmWiki is very limiting. Also, it would be nice to have more allowed 
> characters in the page names, so I could have pages like "operator +=()" 
> and that kind of thing.

While I don't know how/if I'll support the group naming scheme, I'm
already working on extensions to allow other characters in page names.

> I extended the Group/Page syntax to full paths. Instead of "groups", a 
> page may have children, analogous to a directory containing 
> subdirectories. At the simplest you can just use WikiWords as normal, 
> creating pages in the same "directory". To create a "child" page, you 
> can type [[MyTitle/MyChildsTitle]] or [[./MyChildsTitle]].

How does one refer to a page under a different path, or a page several
levels up the hierarchy?

Pm