Navbar links, WML files in subdirs -> HTML, -DROOT~.

Hi,

I am using the WML that is shipped with Debian Woody. And I am facing
a problem with generation of the links in the navbar in subdirectories

The navbar links are correct in the top level directory and also in
the first subdirectory of the top level directory. But at further one
more subdirectory depth (the 2nd level), the links are not correct.

Something like ...

public_html
	|
	-> interests
	|	|
	|	-> kites
	|	|
	|	-> free-software
	|
	-> work

My .wmlrc file is in the public_html directory and it has a -DROOT~.
in it. The navabar.inc file (based on the e.g. in the wml::des:navbar
man page). The navbar.inc file has three elements for navbar one each
for public_html/index.html, interests/index.html and work/index.html.
The urlbase passed in the navbar is .

In public_html, the index.hrml has links that look: work/index.html
and interests/index.html in the navbar.

In work/index.html, the links looks like ../interests/index.html and
../index.html in the navbar

In interests/index.html, the links looks like ../work/index.html and
../index.html in the navbar

However, in the interests/kites/index.html, the links look like this
/index.html and /work/index.html (The same is true in the HTML file
in interests/free-software/index.html. The "../.." prefix is missing
from the links. I assume as per the -DROOT~. and  in the urlbase
passed to navbar, I must have ../../index.html ../../work/index.html
rather than /index.html /work/index.html.

So in the browser, when the files that are NOT in free-software or
the kites directory are rendered, they have links that look like ...

http://my.dom/~me/index.html
http://my.dom/~me/work/index.html
http://my.dom/~me/interests/index.html

But in the kites and the free-software directory, they look like ...

http://my.dom/index.html
http://my.dom/work/index.html
http://my.dom/interests/index.html

I am invoking the wmk program as "wmk -a" from within the public_html
directory.

I also tried juggling around with the <get-var ROOT> and . I just
printed them as output lines in the output HTML file and they seem to
be fine (. in the public_html directory files, .. in work and interests
HTML files and ../.. in the interests/free-software and interests/kites
HTML files), except that the links in the second level directories are
for the navbar are not coming right.

Am I doing something stupid here? I assume there is some silly mistake
on my part, as the -DVARNAME~VARVALUE is supposed to be used for just
achieving this relative substitution. Any clue?

	Giridhar

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