[Phpwiki-talk] Transclusion plugin

[Lawrence A. <la...@us...>]

Some    random    jottings    on    the    Transclude    plugin,   for
discussion/flames/whatever:

Name:   What   on   earth   is   transclusion?   OK,   I   know  about
http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?TransClusion    but    see    also
http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2002/03/30#transOrIn

It  just  sounds  a  bit  silly  to me. What's wrong with "Include"? I
thought wiki was supposed to be easy to use/intuitive :-)

Recursion:  Whilst it is relatively easy (I guess) to detect if a page
includes itself, what if a page1 includes page2 includes page1 ...

Actually,  this  same  problem  applies  to the Redirect plugin - see:
http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/demo/en/RedirectLoop.  Possibility  for
DoS attacks?

Bad  scripts: Security problems if A Bad User can include all sorts of
html in a wiki page? Isn't this why we don't generally allow raw html

Two plugins: Can we merge the IncludePage plugin with this one in some
way?


Lawrence