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diff --git a/doc/todo/Post-compilation_inclusion_of_the_sidebar.mdwn b/doc/todo/Post-compilation_inclusion_of_the_sidebar.mdwn index 568b75747..36161e8b4 100644 --- a/doc/todo/Post-compilation_inclusion_of_the_sidebar.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/Post-compilation_inclusion_of_the_sidebar.mdwn @@ -43,8 +43,25 @@ NicolasLimare > could just be dumped into the page by the pagetemplate hook. Current code > re-loads and renders the same sidebar file for every page built! > -> The sticky part is relative links on the sidebar. These would need to -> be modified somehow depending on the page that the sidebar is placed on. -> Doing that seems hard/tricky. Maybe it would not be worth the optimisation -> of using the stored rendering after all, and instead still re-render it for -> each page? --[[Joey]] +> The sticky part is (relative) links on the sidebar. These would need to +> be modified somehow depending on the page that the sidebar is placed on, +> to not break the link. +> +> Another wrinkle is changing subpage links on a sidebar. Suppose a sidebar +> links to page `foo`. If page `bar/foo` exists, the sidebar on page bar will, +> currently, link to that page, in preference to a toplevel `foo`. +> If `bar/foo` is removed, it will update to link to `foo`. With the new +> scheme, the stored sidebar rendering is not for page `foo`, and so +> the change of the `bar/foo` link will not be noticed or acted on. +> Granted, it's unlikely that anyone relies on the current behavior. You +> generally want links on a sidebar to link to the same place on every page +> that displays it. So finding some way to force all links on a sidebar to +> be handled absolutely and documenting that would avoid this problem. +> +> So, one way to handle both the above problems would be to use the +> pre-rendered sidebar for each page, but use a html parser to look for +> links in it, and munge them to work as relative links on the page the +> sidebar is being added to. Or, if the wiki's url is known, just do this +> once when rendering the sidebar, adding the full url to the links. +> (Maybe require `url` be set when using sidebar?) +> --[[Joey]] |