shorten musings about encoding references

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / todo / pagespec_relative_to_a_target.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/todo/pagespec_relative_to_a_target.mdwn b/doc/todo/pagespec_relative_to_a_target.mdwn
index e92988c3e2dadef44e802bf6053fbf7c5535ee6d..62bb3ea29ec08ebb50fff308609096ecd97ff44e 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/todo/pagespec_relative_to_a_target.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/pagespec_relative_to_a_target.mdwn
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ Note that if you try to inline `*/blah` you will match `foo/blah`,
 themselves rather than any relatives of theirs.
 
 This patch is useful for (among other things) constructing blogging 
-systems where leaf nodes are organized hierarchically; using has_child,
+systems where leaf nodes are organized hierarchically; using `has_child`,
 you can inline only leaf nodes and ignore "intermediate" nodes.
-match_relative can be used recursively to match properties of arbitrary
+`match_relative` can be used recursively to match properties of arbitrary
 complexity: "show me all the pages who have children called foo that 
 have children called blah". I'm not sure what use it is, though.
 
@@ -86,4 +86,12 @@ diff -urNX ignorepats ikiwiki/IkiWiki/Plugin/relative.pm ikidev/IkiWiki/Plugin/r
 +} #}}}
 +
 +1
-</pre>
\ No newline at end of file
+</pre>
+
+[[tag patch]]
+
+> This looks really interesting.  It reminds me of XPath and its conditionals.
+> Those might actually work well adapted to pagespecs.  For instance, to write
+> "match any page with a child blah", you could just write *[blah] , or if you
+> don't want to use relative-by-default in the conditionals, *[./blah].
+> -- [[JoshTriplett]]