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Now some of the pages in the category are subpages so I get a display like this | Now some of the pages in the category are subpages so I get a display like this | ||
| − | + | <pre><nowiki> | |
* [[Greek/Mycenean]] | * [[Greek/Mycenean]] | ||
* [[Greek/Mycenean/Texts]] | * [[Greek/Mycenean/Texts]] | ||
* [[Greek/Mycenean/Writing]] | * [[Greek/Mycenean/Writing]] | ||
* [[Greek/Mycenean/Writing/Syllabary]] | * [[Greek/Mycenean/Writing/Syllabary]] | ||
| − | + | </nowiki></pre> | |
* [[Greek/Mycenean]] | * [[Greek/Mycenean]] | ||
* [[Greek/Mycenean/Texts]] | * [[Greek/Mycenean/Texts]] | ||
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I would like them to appear as an hierarchical listing | I would like them to appear as an hierarchical listing | ||
| − | + | <pre><nowiki> | |
* [[Greek]] | * [[Greek]] | ||
** [[Greek/Mycenean|Mycenean]] | ** [[Greek/Mycenean|Mycenean]] | ||
| − | ** [[Greek/Mycenean/Texts|Texts]] | + | *** [[Greek/Mycenean/Texts|Texts]] |
| − | ** [[Greek/Mycenean/Writing|Writing]] | + | *** [[Greek/Mycenean/Writing|Writing]] |
| − | *** [[Greek/Mycenean/Writing/Syllabary|Syllabary]] | + | **** [[Greek/Mycenean/Writing/Syllabary|Syllabary]] |
| − | + | </nowiki></pre> | |
* [[Greek]] | * [[Greek]] | ||
** [[Greek/Mycenean|Mycenean]] | ** [[Greek/Mycenean|Mycenean]] | ||
| − | ** [[Greek/Mycenean/Texts|Texts]] | + | *** [[Greek/Mycenean/Texts|Texts]] |
| − | ** [[Greek/Mycenean/Writing|Writing]] | + | *** [[Greek/Mycenean/Writing|Writing]] |
| − | *** [[Greek/Mycenean/Writing/Syllabary|Syllabary]] | + | **** [[Greek/Mycenean/Writing/Syllabary|Syllabary]] |
| − | N.B. That [[Category:Greek]] would have further subpages [[Greek/Writing]], [[Greek/Dialects]] and whatever which shouldn't appear in a listing of <code>category=Mycenean</code>, but [[Greek]] itself should, as the top page in the category=Mycenean hierarchy is itself a subpage of that page. | + | N.B. That <code><nowiki>[[Category:Greek]]</nowiki></code> would have further subpages <code><nowiki>[[Greek/Writing]]</nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki>[[Greek/Dialects]]</nowiki></code> and whatever which shouldn't appear in a listing of <code>category=Mycenean</code>, but <code><nowiki>[[Greek]]</nowiki></code> itself should, as the top page in the category=Mycenean hierarchy is itself a subpage of that page. |
| − | As for constructing code which translates the current wikitext into the desired one this Perl regex does the trick: | + | As for constructing code which translates the current wikitext into the desired one this Perl regex does the trick, |
| + | except that they don't add the <code><nowiki>[[Greek]]</nowiki></code> top node (There would need to be some check to see if the category named in a <code>category=</code> parameter is itself a subcategory and if so add the supercategory/-ies): | ||
<pre><nowiki> | <pre><nowiki> | ||
s{^\*[ ](\[\[.+?([^/]+)\]\])}{ | s{^\*[ ](\[\[.+?([^/]+)\]\])}{ | ||
$l = $1; | $l = $1; | ||
| − | $c = ($l =~ s#/#/#g) | + | $c = ($l =~ s#/#/#g); ## Count the number of slashes in the link and add 1. |
$l =~ s#([^/]+)\]\]$#$1\|$1\]\]#; ## Copy link text | $l =~ s#([^/]+)\]\]$#$1\|$1\]\]#; ## Copy link text | ||
"\*" x $c ." ".$l; ## Print out the right number of asterisks and the link | "\*" x $c ." ".$l; ## Print out the right number of asterisks and the link | ||
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== Reply == | == Reply == | ||
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| + | May be someone (you??) could write a separate little extension which takes the wiki text of a flat enumeration list and transforms it into an indented enumeration list; the symbol which is being used to recognize the hierarchy (in your case the '/') could be an optional parameter. If there was such an extension it could easily be used from within DPL I think. [[User:Gero|Gero]] 06:51, 22 April 2009 (UTC) | ||
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| + | : I guess I could if I was as comfortable with PHP as I am with Perl. I'm a scholar who has learned to use some Perl to explore my data, not a programmer. There is also still the problem of superpages (which I mistyped as supercategories) which are not themselves included in the search match. I think it is not ''really'' so easy as my example regex to modify the wikitext makes it appear. To get a proper output one still has to gather the hierarchy into a datastructure (I'm thinking a hash of hashes) from which the new HTML list can be constructed, so that one doesn't have to trust that he input is a well-formed, sorted list of pages which all belong to the same subpage hierarchy. I'll write a proof-of concept in Perl and then see if I can translate it into PHP or find someone to do it for me. [[User:Melroch|Melroch]] 11:51, 22 April 2009 (UTC) | ||
Latest revision as of 12:51, 22 April 2009
| Description: | How to list subpages as sublists |
| Extension / Version: | DPL / ? |
| Type / Status: | Change Request / open |
Problem
I have a statement like this
<dpl> category=Mycenean </dpl>
Now some of the pages in the category are subpages so I get a display like this
* [[Greek/Mycenean]]
* [[Greek/Mycenean/Texts]]
* [[Greek/Mycenean/Writing]]
* [[Greek/Mycenean/Writing/Syllabary]]
I would like them to appear as an hierarchical listing
* [[Greek]]
** [[Greek/Mycenean|Mycenean]]
*** [[Greek/Mycenean/Texts|Texts]]
*** [[Greek/Mycenean/Writing|Writing]]
**** [[Greek/Mycenean/Writing/Syllabary|Syllabary]]
N.B. That [[Category:Greek]] would have further subpages [[Greek/Writing]], [[Greek/Dialects]] and whatever which shouldn't appear in a listing of category=Mycenean, but [[Greek]] itself should, as the top page in the category=Mycenean hierarchy is itself a subpage of that page.
As for constructing code which translates the current wikitext into the desired one this Perl regex does the trick,
except that they don't add the [[Greek]] top node (There would need to be some check to see if the category named in a category= parameter is itself a subcategory and if so add the supercategory/-ies):
s{^\*[ ](\[\[.+?([^/]+)\]\])}{
$l = $1;
$c = ($l =~ s#/#/#g); ## Count the number of slashes in the link and add 1.
$l =~ s#([^/]+)\]\]$#$1\|$1\]\]#; ## Copy link text
"\*" x $c ." ".$l; ## Print out the right number of asterisks and the link
}egm;
This is the concept. A bit harder of course if done on HTML rather than wikitext.
Melroch 10:51, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
Reply
May be someone (you??) could write a separate little extension which takes the wiki text of a flat enumeration list and transforms it into an indented enumeration list; the symbol which is being used to recognize the hierarchy (in your case the '/') could be an optional parameter. If there was such an extension it could easily be used from within DPL I think. Gero 06:51, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
- I guess I could if I was as comfortable with PHP as I am with Perl. I'm a scholar who has learned to use some Perl to explore my data, not a programmer. There is also still the problem of superpages (which I mistyped as supercategories) which are not themselves included in the search match. I think it is not really so easy as my example regex to modify the wikitext makes it appear. To get a proper output one still has to gather the hierarchy into a datastructure (I'm thinking a hash of hashes) from which the new HTML list can be constructed, so that one doesn't have to trust that he input is a well-formed, sorted list of pages which all belong to the same subpage hierarchy. I'll write a proof-of concept in Perl and then see if I can translate it into PHP or find someone to do it for me. Melroch 11:51, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
