[Pmwiki-users] Re: [[include: ... ]] part of a page
Mattthew Shaylor
pmwiki
Tue May 4 07:51:16 CDT 2004
I don't want to get too stuck into debates, although I would use this markup =>
I don't think its feature bloat :)
I would sooner have:
[[include:SomePage#from]] to include everything after #from
and:
[[include:SomePage#from#]] to include 1 'unit' starting with #from
Since this is closer to how an HTML anchor / url works. However I'm not going
to worry about it.
This would make the most obvious 'unit' being to the next anchor. The only
issue with that is that there would then be a need to add obscure anchors just
to make this markup work from another page, see below. Again I'm not too
worried what unit is used.
The one thing I would say though, in any case where the anchor doesn't exist I
would rather the wiki gave a clear indication that it wasn't work (e.g. "missing
anchor: ...") rather than fail silently. That way editors can find problems
more easily.
Perhaps the major risk here is that there would be anchors on one page that were
key to operation on another page. This isn't exactly obvious to the user and a
well meaning user could decide to clear up anchors that were necessary for
another page. Whatever minimises this risk is probably preferable, this having
the "missing anchor" message, and a 'unit' that doesn't use another anchor is
probably best.
Matthew
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