Forum OpenACS Development: Re: XoWiki URL Cleanup

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5: Re: XoWiki URL Cleanup (response to 1)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 06/16/06 02:46 PM
For this 1. For spaces to be represented by "_" (like in Wikipedia's Mediawiki) and not "+" (like in xowiki)

perhaps we can add a paraeter or someting, to automatically change spaces in the name to underscore. I think that is the best solution if we want to disallow spaces in the url name of the pages.

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8: Re: Re: XoWiki URL Cleanup (response to 5)
Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 06/16/06 06:42 PM
there should be certainly a warning, when a user has already some entry "a_b" and adds "a b". i added this behavior to xowiki in cvs head. This translation feature is turned on per xowiki folder, when the following line is added to the folder object:

set subst_blank_in_name 1

after some testing, we could make it the default behavior, if there is interest and not too many negative gotchas for this.

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9: Re: Re: Re: XoWiki URL Cleanup (response to 8)
Posted by Carl Robert Blesius on 06/20/06 07:49 AM
Thanks Gustaf. We updated xowiki today and my first test was not successiful, but I will try again during daylight hours.

Here is what I added to the folder object:

#######
# this is the payload of the folder object

set subst_blank_in_name 1
set index_page "en:DOM"
#######

I will double check if we got the change and report if it is not a local issue.

Here are some relevant links from the Wikipedia for reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(technical_restrictions)#Plus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Page_name#Ignored_spaces.2Funderscores

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Canonicalization

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12: Re: Re: Re: XoWiki URL Cleanup (response to 8)
Posted by Carl Robert Blesius on 06/23/06 07:08 AM
After the switch the bracketed links are rendered to point to + separated names, even after renaming the files.

Here is what I did:

1. Made the change
2. Created a new page named "new page"
3. Linked to that page using [[new page]]

Here is what happened:

1. new page was created as "new_page"
2. link points to "new+page"

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13: Re: Re: Re: Re: XoWiki URL Cleanup (response to 12)
Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 06/23/06 10:32 AM
1 and 2 is as intended, the intention was to refer to a page with [[new_page]], since 2 creates the page with its canonical name "new_page". the canonical name is used for the url as well, your hated "+" signs are gone.

however, i agree, that with the switch turned on, it makes sense to to allow both notations [[new page]] and [[new_page]]. Get it from CVS head.