Friendly page titless

[Chris Haynes <ch...@harvington.org.uk>]

Hey! Just a minute! 

Is this the new Wiki structure which permits pages to be organized into directory groups (that I was asking for last year)?

Is it in a standard release yet? 

Is it documented anywhere other than in the eMail thread?

Did I miss some big announcement or is _this_ it?

Regards, from a happily-expectant

Chris



On Wednesday, August 25, 2010 at 6:31:52 PM, Brian Burch wrote:

> 2. I found several quirks in the way friendly page titles were generated
> and have improved the algorithm.

> 3. While working on point 2, I found several situations where the 
> algorithm that generated the associated wiki page name lost information
> about the file path that would have helped the friendly page title 
> logic. Reluctantly, I decided to make a non-backward-compatible change.
> In many cases existing wiki pages will be named exactly as before, but
> it is possible for existing pages to "apparently" disappear!

> The types of paths that will map differently are:
> File path --------original wikiname -------- new wikiname
>    abcd/2xyz          Abcd2xyz                   Abcd_2xyz
>    abc3/2xyz          Abc32xyz                   Abc3_2xyz
>    abcD/2xyz          AbcD2xyz                   AbcD_2xyz
>    abcD/Wxyz          AbcDWxyz                   AbcD_Wxyz

Re: Friendly page titless

[Brian Burch <Br...@PingToo.com>]

On 26/08/10 21:58, Chris Haynes wrote:
> Hey! Just a minute!
>
> Is this the new Wiki structure which permits pages to be organized into directory groups (that I was asking for last year)?

Sorry to disappoint you, Chris. The behaviour of the 
PhotoCollectionPlugin is restricted to the directory structure that 
houses the pictures. The associated wiki pages are still held in the 
"normal" single directory. It is the external photo collection that can 
be hierarchical and the plugin will map between these two organisational 
regimes.

> Is it in a standard release yet?
>
> Is it documented anywhere other than in the eMail thread?
>
> Did I miss some big announcement or is _this_ it?
>
> Regards, from a happily-expectant

However, I am puzzled that you have not looked at the standard "beautify 
pages" feature that I encountered during my research into my own plugin. 
My algorithms are derived from the base code, although the behaviour is 
customised to deal with external file and directory names when used to 
automatically derive unique wiki page names.

I tried to quickly find out something about the beautify feature, but 
was surprised at how little had been written:

http://www.jspwiki.org/wiki/SystemInfo -> Do we beautify titles? true.

http://www.jspwiki.org/wiki/JSPWikiSupport#section-JSPWikiSupport-PageNamesWithBlanks

There are two issues related to this feature, I think...
1) some people want to create wiki page names with embedded blanks, so 
the filenames and associated url's have to embed the String %20 (or is 
it +) instead to make them legal.
2) Some people want their existing wiki CamelCase page titles 
//rendered// as their page names, but with white space between each word.

My code is based on the class com.ecyrd.jspwiki.TextUtil, so you might 
like to review the original code. The only use that seems important is 
within WikiEngine.beautifyTitle(), which claims to add whitespace to 
wiki page titles.

I was under the impression that there was a global beautifyPages 
property in jspwiki.properties, but I haven't found it in the default 
file. I wonder whether the feature needs to be triggered by the template 
parameters... perhaps someone who knows more can help?

Regards,

Brian