Short description
The Story
We have an exissting (non-wiki) website which basically consists of xml files that are transformed via xslt. Learning about the xslt formatter in moinmoin, i thought it should be possible to turn our site into a wiki by basically just saving all the xml files aswell as the stylesheets as moinmoin wiki pages.
The Problem
The way urls are resolved by the wiki engine makes this a bit difficult. Currently, links like /ThisOne are resolved as relative links, i.e. as subpages of the refering page, whereas SomeThingLikeThis is resolved as an absolute page link, i.e. referes to a top-level page. In our situation however it would be usefull to turn this behaviour arround, i.e. links without a leading slash refer to subpages of the reffering page, and links with the leading slash refer to toplevel pages.
Who needs this?
Users that just want to have wikis will probably expect a "flat" name space as default and expect subpages as an additional feature. They would prefer the way links are resolved rigth now.
Sites that employ a moreless wild mix of technology may find it quite usefull to use a more "filesystem-like" namespace, for instance when using MoinMoin in conjunction with their custom hacked xslt stylesheets. It would make it easier for them to move to MoinMoin as their base cms, as this it better fits the semantic of uris as employed by most web technologies.