Sunday, June 05, 2005

displaying helpful names

I hate absolute path names. They don't show how the current context is connected to an item. I've studiously avoided them, and finally that effort has borne fruit.

When CS1W displays a reference, you want to know the (shortest) relative path from the current (applicative) context to that item. Often that relative path will include a contextual name, and you may also want to know what the real name of the item is. So when a contextual name is used, a relative path name which does not use any contextual names is also displayed.

This is a big step up, and was implemented in 1-0522f. This change should make it much easier for a user to grok the contents of the Ark and all the relationships defined between the various items it holds.

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