2009/5/10 Arthus Erea <[email protected]>:
>>
>> 2009/5/8 Owen Winkler <[email protected]>:

[snip Owen's explanation of altering rewrite rules to capture ancestors]
>
> I strongly oppose that approach.

I'm writing a plugin for my own use. Whether you approve or not is of
no concern to me.

> The slug of a post should be globally unique — and it shouldn't
> include the tree. If we're going to do that, we might as well use the
> "permalink" as the slug.
>
> If I change where a post is located, it should not change the slug.
> The hierarchy of a post should no more define a post as the date or
> title do, both of which can change without changing the slug.
>
> I'm not sure why we are even explicitly forcing the parents. Instead,
> I think we should just take the last url part and assume that's the
> slug you're requesting. It'll give the full appearance of subpages,
> but without complication.

Content should have a single URL. If parents aren't enforced, foo/slug
and bar/slug are the same content at multiple URLs. That's not what I
want.

-- 
Michael C. Harris, School of CS&IT, RMIT University
http://twofishcreative.com/michael/blog
IRC: michaeltwofish #habari

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