[WikiEN-l] Why are URLs numbered?

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-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of Mark Ryan
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Why are URLs numbered?

So typing the following in the article text:

<ref name="MyLife">Ryan, Mark. ''My Life as a List Administrator''
(2007) London: Bloomsbury.</ref>

would obviously output:
1. Ryan, Mark. ''My Life as a List Administrator'' (2007) London:
Bloomsbury.

And then later in the article text you'd go something like:
<reflink name="MyLife">p. 18</reflink>

and it would output:
2. Above [no. 1], p. 18

Is that what people mean? 

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Broadly, yes. 

Only I'd keep it simple and keep it to just this usage: <reflink name="name"
/>. That would stop problems of recursion, and probably make the coding a
lot simpler.


FT2