[Pmwiki-users] Re: any conclusion on catagories ?

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 12:57:16PM +0200, chr at home.se wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 11:55:25PM +0200, Knut Alboldt wrote:
> 
> > The key aspects of building a category are:
> > 1.  On every page that belongs to a category "XYZ", create a link on
> >     that page to [[Category/XYZ]].
> 
> Would [[Category.XYZ]] work? 

Yes, Category.XYZ works just as well.

> > PmWiki 2 makes this second step incredibly simple, since you can get easily 
> > generate a list of all pages with links to Category.XYZ by doing
> >     (:pagelist Category.XYZ:)
> 
> Hmm... will this list all pages that *links* to Category.XYZ, or to all 
> pages that contain the text "Category.XYZ"?

All pages that contain the text "Category.XYZ".  A future version will
allow (:pagelist linkto=Category.XYZ:) or (:pagelist backlink=Category.XYZ:)
(I'm still working on the syntax), which will strictly search for links
and not text.

Pm