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Joey Hess 2009-05-19 13:43:39 -04:00
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@ -18,3 +18,28 @@ This is not just an ugly workaround. The availability of this feature has some r
So in a sense, in some or most cases, it would indeed be cleaner to "store" the definition of a class of pages referred to in complex pagespecs as a separate object. And the most natural representation for this definition of a class of pages (adhering to the principle of wiki that what you mean is entered/stored in its most natural representation, not through some hidden disconnected code) is making a page with an inline/map/or the like, so that at the same time you store the definition and you see what it is (the set of pages is displayed to you). So in a sense, in some or most cases, it would indeed be cleaner to "store" the definition of a class of pages referred to in complex pagespecs as a separate object. And the most natural representation for this definition of a class of pages (adhering to the principle of wiki that what you mean is entered/stored in its most natural representation, not through some hidden disconnected code) is making a page with an inline/map/or the like, so that at the same time you store the definition and you see what it is (the set of pages is displayed to you).
I would actually use it in my current "project" in ikiwiki: I actually edit a set of materials as a set of subpages `new_stuff/*`, and I also want to have a combined view of all of them (made through inline), and at another page, I want to list what has been linked to in `new_stuff/*` and what hasn't been linked to.--Ivan Z. I would actually use it in my current "project" in ikiwiki: I actually edit a set of materials as a set of subpages `new_stuff/*`, and I also want to have a combined view of all of them (made through inline), and at another page, I want to list what has been linked to in `new_stuff/*` and what hasn't been linked to.--Ivan Z.
> I see where you're coming from, but let's think about
> immplementation efficiency for a second.
>
> In order for inline inheritlinks=yes to work,
> the inline directive would need to be processed
> during the scan pass.
>
> When the directive was processed there, it would need
> to determine which pages get inlined (itself a moderatly
> expensive operation), and then determine which pages
> each of them link to. Since the scan pass is unordered,
> those pages may not have themselves been scanned yet.
> So to tell what they link to, inline would have to load
> each of them, and scan them.
>
> And that would happen on *every* build of the wiki,
> even if the page with the inline didn't change. So
> there's the potential for this to really badly slow
> down a wiki build.
>
> Maybe there's the potential to add some really smart
> caching code that avoids unnecessary re-scanning
> and is really quick.. but I suspect it would be *very*
> complex too. --[[Joey]]