> FWIW, the crc32 solution[1] is a simple number-link possibility that > only seems to fall down on duplicate headings. > > Hagan > > [1] http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/00955#checksum
If I understand correctly, people wish to have automatically created heading-ids in order to successfully link to individual page sections more easily (instead of manually adding [[#my_section]] anchors in the page). But these "easier" links should work both from within the (pm)wiki and from an external page/site, so a checksum of any kind (crc32, md5) seems not a good solution, one has to look at the html-source to get the id. MediaWiki [1] has this capability from version 1.8 [2], one can link to a section like this: [[Wiki#Editing wiki pages|Click here]] will link to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki#Editing_wiki_pages where there is a heading "==Editing wiki pages==". The conversion algorythm heading->anchor_id is quite simple: - wiki to plain text (all links and styles removed) - whitespace trimmed ("= Title =" and "=Title=" are the same) - in case there is a repeated heading in the same page (including "included" pages), a _2 or _3 etc. is added; - spaces replaced with underscores; - the string is "urlencoded"; - "%"-signs are replaced with dots. This allows to have html that validates, and is very easy for the writers (PmWiki philosophy n°1). The conversion function works also in other languages, that is UTF-8 encoding: while it is not very nice in the html code for non-latin languages, it works both with the page table of contents and with links from other pages [[Page#Section name]]. If the section heading changes order, the links to it will still work (unlike if all anchor_ids are id1, id2...). If the section heading dissapears or changes, the anchor_id will also change and then the links will redirect to the top of the page (least surprise). If one wishes to get a link to a section, there is the table of contents, and with right-click on a link he can copy the url-address (currently without a core TOC, for PmWiki this will be unavailable). Personally, I am not a big supporter for this request, but if it is added, it should be easy for wikiwriters to link to sections in the same page, or in other pages, and should work with any language (removing all non-ascii won't work). Thanks, Petko [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Link#Anchors [2] http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/includes/CoreParserFunctions.php?view=markup see the function anchorencode(). _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
