Re: Title based URLs

I wasn't thinking so much of weblog type posts more the 'static' pages i 
started setting up.
Either way it looks like a good change.

Articles like this are the reason for my prodding :)


http://www.ashbykuhlman.net/blog/2003/07/27/2227

Cheers,
darryl

Kimbro Staken wrote:

> Continuing the discussion started here 
> http://randomthoughts.vandorp.ca/syncato/WK/blog/673?t=item
>
> I just added an initial change to handle more descriptive URLs for 
> blog posts. I haven't changed the stylesheets to use it yet, but I 
> will after some more testing. The old style URLs still work and that's 
> really still the preferred way to manage data, the new style is just 
> better for presentation to users.
>
> Using the new scheme the URL I pasted above would become.
>
> http://randomthoughts.vandorp.ca/syncato/WK/blog/XSL_site_assembly.item
>
> This is a more bloxsom like URL with the title having spaces replaced 
> with _ and real _ replaced  with \_. The .item is the stylesheet to 
> use, if you wanted it to be .html you just have to rename the 
> stylesheet, or better create a new one that extends item.xsl.
>
> The one thing I'm worried about with this scheme is that titles now 
> have to be unique. I'm not enforcing that yet, and I don't really like 
> the idea but if you don't you'll end up with item pages that show all 
> the items with the same title. Hmm, you know that actually could be 
> useful now that I think about it a little more. For instance you could 
> have a running series of posts that would all show up on the same 
> page. i don't know. Useful or bug?
>
> Actually, just tested that and it doesn't show more then one item like 
> I expected. It should, guess that's a bug.
>




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