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Re: Linking between FAQ items (Was: [LDraw FAQ] Who wrote LDraw?)
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lugnet.faq
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Fri, 14 May 1999 20:48:15 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.faq, jsproat@geocities.com (Sproaticus) writes:
> > From my end, I can guarantee that all FAQ items (1) have unique file names.
> > This is the key thing, to be able to find a specific file by its name, in
> > any subdirectory.
> If you make the filenames themselves unique, you'll end up in the long run
> encoding bastardized forms of the directory names into the filenames in
> order to keep the namespaces clean. No way to avoid that. :-(
An alternative is to refer to the directory and the file specifically,
leaving the slurper script to figure out if it should resolve the address or
not (1).
The drawback to this is, is that the author who wishes to link to another
items has two new responsibilities:
a) to find out beforehand what the path and filename of the linked-to file
is (but half of this should be done beforehand, anyway)
b) to keep track of linked-to FAQ items which may be moved into another
directory
I'm willing to work with either solution; I just feel that not requiring
unique filenames will make the authors' jobs more complicated.
Cheers,
- jsproat
1. That is, if it's a single large document or snippets of the FAQ.
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com>
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/5249/
May the Force be with y'all.
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| (...) By "resolve the address" do you mean munging the HREF? Can you give an example? (...) Doing that is surely gonna be easier than firstly doing that and secondly looking up the associated global ID string. (...) In a very large system of ID (...) (26 years ago, 15-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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