On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Jack Bates ms419@freezone.co.uk wrote:
Does there exist a recommended wiki syntax for representing that a page is hierarchically a "child" of another page?
I don't want to rename the pages
Not in stock MediaWiki. The typical way to do this is to use subpages:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Subpages
But you have to rename the pages (and the names can get long/ugly).
Among the reasons for doing this is that, to build the PDF based on the static index, currently I recursively concatenate first the body of a page, followed by each of its children
I don't know how it works, but Extension:Collector might be useful to you:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection
I thought "transclusion" was a candidate, because pages are recursively transcluded to build the PDF, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Transclusion
In the wiki however, I don't actually want to display pages embedded in each other - instead I want links to child pages. This represents enough information about the hierarchical structure to build the PDF
It might be possible in principle to use some kind of template that normally renders as a link, but could be persuaded to render as an inclusion under some conditions. I'm not sure offhand what the best way to do this would be.