Re: [Phpwiki-talk] TOC headings - unique ID

[Whit B. <wh...@tr...>]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 08:33:30PM -0500, Micki Kaufman wrote:
> Absolutely - a unique ID in each anchor and href is critical, to 
> differentiate form from function...

While it's simple enough to add something either time-based on a fine-enough
scale or sufficiently random in the TOC context, I've been puzzling on how
to borrow the functionality being built for the TOC context to get the
following effect: having each heading accompanied by an auto-generated link
to a subpage (somewhat like the calendar plugin). The notion is that the
main page remains owned by - and only editable by - the primary author(s),
but the subpages are there for open comments on each of the subsections
(with an option to display comments and sections side-by-side).

The stumbling block with doing this is that, while the unique ID scheme that
will be used in the TOC most probably will generate the IDs on-the-fly each
time the page is generated, the unique ID scheme required for what I'm after
would have to be stable so the subpage links could be consistent. To have it
be stable all I can think of is to write the IDs into the page body on the
first pass through - which seems a bit un-wiki-like and noisey. Is there a
solution I'm overlooking?

Thanks,
Whit