[xwiki-dev] Re: Right approach for filtering

[Sergiu Dumitriu]

On 3/31/07, Zeljko Trogrlic <zeljko_t at post.htnet.hr> wrote:
>
> Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
> > 1. We can add a new table, xwikiredirects, which holds redirect URLs.
> > 2. We add document.getRedirects() (maybe both ways, from and to)
> > 3. We need can change docdoesnotexist.vm to check for redirects.
>
> That would be great. Or, you can take slightly different approach:
> Use two tables:
>   * "dictionary"
>   * "document" (this is existing table).
>
> In "dictionary" table, store all possible names for document. It could
> be used for
>   * renaming
>   * synonyms.
>
> Same document can have multiple names, e.g. "IP" and "Internet
> Protocol". Both entries in dictionary point to the same entry in
> documents.


You mean that pointing to ..../view/Doc/IP will display the
Doc/Internet_Protocol document, but without redirecting? (this is what
MediaWiki does). Otherwise, I don't see the difference with the approach
above. I did not describe the actual structure of the table, but how it can
be used.

If document is renamed, create new entry and add put its name in the
> redirect field of the original entry. Original entry becomes deprecated,
> but it is still working.


"It is still working" means that the page content is preserved as it is at
the moment of renaming?

Optionally, update all old links.
>
> Optionally, garbage collect old synonyms.


Not automatically, because IP should  always be a synonim for Internet
Protocol (until we make a disambiguation page). But anyway, the
redirects/synonyms table should be editable from the wiki interface.

You should probably do this after 1.0


Definitely.


Sergiu
-- 
http://purl.org/net/sergiu
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.xwiki.org/pipermail/devs/attachments/20070331/6ad40d8b/attachment.html