why don't you use absolute references?

/index.html
/products/productA.html
/products/productB.html



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Koen Pellegrims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 4:43 PM
> To: Cocoon-Users@Xml. Apache. Org
> Subject: Common practice: how to keep links to html-trees consistent
> 
> 
> Guys,
> 
> This is something that most of you *must* have come across at 
> one point or
> another, and I am just looking for the best solution (I know it is not
> really a Cocoon-question, but Cocoon might provide some nice 
> and elegant
> solution for this...)
> 
> Menu on my site that contains a link to the index-page 
> (index.html)  and
> links to (among others) a product-page. In the page-hierarchy, the
> product-pages are contained within a 'products' directory.
> 
> index.html
> products/productA.html
> products/productB.html
> 
> The problem arises when I display this menu on a product 
> page, because the
> browser (rightly so) interprets 'index.html' as being relative to the
> 'products'-directory.
> 
> So, whereas the link to 'index.html' is correct from the 
> index-page, it
> refers to 'products/index.html' on any product page. (and 
> even worse: a link
> to productA suddenly becomes a link to 
> products/products/productsA.html)
> 
> My question is simple: did any of you encounter this problem? And -of
> course- how did you solve it?
> 
> Koen
> 
> 
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