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correct misconception about links to nonexistant pages not existing - 

such links _do_ exist!
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Joey Hess 2007-12-22 13:41:20 -05:00
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In another blog, I could tag a post with arbitrary words and not have to do anything else for the software to recognize it as a tag. In Ikiwiki if you want to tag something \[[tag foo]] you also have to go to tags/ and create foo.mkdn (even if it's zero-length), because "tags are links", and links don't actually *link* if they have no destination. This allows for customization of how you present different tag feeds, but this (to me) is too much work and more like a category than a tag. It'd be nice if you could tell the tag plugin "if the tag target doesn't exist in tags/*, pretend it does exist and is zero-length". -- [[users/Larry_Clapp]]
In another blog, I could tag a post with arbitrary words and not have to do
anything else for the software to recognize it as a tag. In Ikiwiki if you
want to tag something \[[tag foo]] you also have to go to tags/ and create
foo.mkdn (even if it's zero-length), because "tags are links", and links
don't actually *link* if they have no destination. This allows for
customization of how you present different tag feeds, but this (to me) is
too much work and more like a category than a tag. It'd be nice if you
could tell the tag plugin "if the tag target doesn't exist in tags/*,
pretend it does exist and is zero-length". -- [[users/Larry_Clapp]]
Never mind, I think I found the answer (or at least a pointer) [[here|plugins/tag/discussion/]]. Feel free to delete both these comments :). -- [[users/Larry_Clapp]]
Never mind, I think I found the answer (or at least a pointer)
[[here|plugins/tag/discussion/]]. Feel free to delete both these comments
:). -- [[users/Larry_Clapp]]
> Why do you have to go create the tag? A tag (or link) pointing at a page that
> doesn't exist _does_ still exist. ikiwiki allows you to:
>
> * Create a pagespec to match pages linking to the "nonexistant" tag.
> * Click on the tag to create the tag page, like any other incomplete link.
> --[[Joey]]