Re: Getting article aid (giving or not givingpubid) via the title

In article <bjnnq3$dln$1-111RdWWlOxkOkXtL6OYfHgC/[email protected]>, "Jason Judge" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>...
>> The other approach, where a separate table would keep track of the
>> link between (internal) module items and (external) references,
>> comes very close to what I had in mind with the kbase discussion :
>> have a (base + id) on the hand, and a (module + itemtype + itemid)
>> on the other hand, so that e.g.
>
>Yes - that's what I meant. Sorry I wasn't being clear. The external IDs are
>likely to be something the user will never see nor be interested in. It is
>information that would only be useful when linking items to other sites. Of
>course, with URL mapping then it may well be something the user is
>interested in, as you've shown below. Two birds with one stone...?
>
Indeed - and add some magic in autolinks so that kbase123 gets a
link to kbase 123, which itself gets redirected to articles 7 345, and
we have a multi-site kbase system with unique (and possibly auto-
increment) ids, independent of the actual article id on each site. :-)

Guess I need to get working on that xlink thingie...

Mike.