pedigree: added documentation (doc/plugins/pedigree.mdwn)

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[[!template id=plugin name=pedigree author="intrigeri"]]
[[!tag type/useful]]
This plugin provides a bunch of loops that one can use in his/her
`HTML::Template`'s to iterate over all or a subset of a page's
parents. One can think of pedigree as "`PARENTLINKS` on steroids".
[[!toc ]]
Content
=======
Loop variables
--------------
Inside any loop provided by the pedigree plugin, every path element
has not only the `URL` and `PAGE` variables, as with `PARENTLINKS`,
but also the following ones:
* `ABSDEPTH` (positive integer): depth of the path leading to the
current path element, counting from the wiki's root, which has
`ABSDEPTH=0`
* `DISTANCE` (positive integer): distance, expressed in path elements,
from the current page to the current path element; e.g. this is
1 for the current page's mother, 2 for its grand-mother, etc.
* `IS_ROOT` (boolean): true if, and only if, this path element is the
wiki's root
* `IS_SECOND_ANCESTOR` (boolean): true if, and only if, this path
element is the first one after the wiki's root, on the path leading
to the current page
* `IS_GRAND_MOTHER` (boolean): true if, and only if, this path element
is the current page's grand-mother
* `IS_MOTHER` (boolean): true if, and only if, this path element
is the current page's mother
Loops
-----
### `PEDIGREE`
Returns the same parents list as `PARENTLINKS` would, along with
additional loop variables as explained above.
### `PEDIGREE_BUT_ROOT`
Returns the same parents list as `PEDIGREE` would, **but** the wiki
root (i.e. homepage).
In addition to pedigree's common loop variables, `PEDIGREE_BUT_ROOT`
provides `RELDEPTH` (positive integer), whose value, for a given
parent, is its relative depth, i.e. the depth of the path leading to
it, counting from the first element returned by this loop.
### `PEDIGREE_BUT_TWO_OLDEST`
Returns the same parents list as `PEDIGREE` would, **but** the wiki
root (i.e. homepage) and the next path component.
In addition to pedigree's common loop variables,
`PEDIGREE_BUT_TWO_OLDEST` provides `RELDEPTH`: depth of the path
leading to the current parent, relative to the first element returned
by this loop.
Usage
=====
Styling parents depending on their depth
----------------------------------------
Say you want the parent links to be styled depending on their depth in
the path leading to the current page; just add the following lines in
`page.tmpl`:
<TMPL_LOOP NAME="PEDIGREE">
<a href="<TMPL_VAR NAME="URL">" class="parentdepth<TMPL_VAR NAME="ABSDEPTH">">
<TMPL_VAR NAME="PAGE">
</a> /
</TMPL_LOOP>
Then write the appropriate CSS bits for `a.parentdepth1`, etc.
Skip some parents, style the others depending on their distance
---------------------------------------------------------------
Say you want to display the parents links, skipping the wiki homepage,
styled depending on their distance from the current page; just add the
following lines in `page.tmpl`:
<TMPL_LOOP NAME="PEDIGREE_BUT_ROOT">
<a href="<TMPL_VAR NAME="URL">" class="parentdistance<TMPL_VAR NAME="DISTANCE">">
<TMPL_VAR NAME="PAGE">
</a> /
</TMPL_LOOP>
Then write the appropriate CSS bits for `a.parentdistance1`, etc.
Full-blown example
------------------
Let's have a look at a more complicated example; combining the boolean
loop variables provided by this plugin (`IS_ROOT` and friends) and
`HTML::Template` flow control structures, you can have custom HTML
and/or CSS generated for some special path components; e.g.:
<!-- all parents, skipping mother and grand'ma, inside a common div+ul -->
<div id="oldestparents">
<ul>
<TMPL_LOOP NAME="PEDIGREE">
<TMPL_IF NAME="IS_GRAND_MOTHER">
<TMPL_ELSE>
<TMPL_IF NAME="IS_MOTHER">
<TMPL_ELSE>
<li><a href="<TMPL_VAR NAME="URL">"><TMPL_VAR NAME="PAGE"></a></li>
</TMPL_IF>
</TMPL_IF>
</TMPL_LOOP>
</ul>
</div>
<!-- dedicated div's for mother and grand'ma -->
<TMPL_LOOP NAME="PEDIGREE">
<TMPL_IF NAME="IS_GRAND_MOTHER">
<div id="grandma">
<a href="<TMPL_VAR NAME="URL">"><TMPL_VAR NAME="PAGE"></a>
</div>
<TMPL_ELSE>
<TMPL_IF NAME="IS_MOTHER">
<div id="mother">
<a href="<TMPL_VAR NAME="URL">"><TMPL_VAR NAME="PAGE"></a>
</div>
</TMPL_IF>
</TMPL_IF>
</TMPL_LOOP>
<!-- eventually, the current page title -->
<TMPL_VAR NAME="TITLE">
</div>
Known bugs
==========
If `PEDIGREE_BUT_ROOT` and `PEDIGREE_BUT_TWO_OLDEST` are used in the
same `HTML::Template`, `RELDEPTH` has wrong values inside the
`PEDIGREE_BUT_ROOT` loop. This can be fixed if anyone needs this to
be working.