Problem with map:

Observed behavior:

given map:

[[!map pages="blog/tags/*"]]

received map:

Note that you get "blog" and "tags", and they're both links, but "life" and "tech" are not links.

desired output:

Note that you you don't get "blog" or "tags", and "life" and "tech" are links now.

patch which appears to achieve this:

--- map.pm.orig 2007-11-23 16:04:02.000000000 -0500
+++ map.pm      2007-12-21 00:12:15.000000000 -0500
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@
                                my @b=split(/\//, $common_prefix);
                                $common_prefix="";
                                while (@a && @b && $a[0] eq $b[0]) {
+                                       if ($common_prefix) {
+                                         $common_prefix .= "/";
+                                       }
                                        $common_prefix.=shift(@a);
                                        shift @b;
                                }

Discussion

(Disclaimer: I don't know ikiwiki internals.)

Map tries to calculate a "common prefix" between the pagespec and the page being rendered, and then later does some substitutions using the prefix. But the path has /'s in it and the common prefix doesn't, so it never matches correctly. So, add the /'s.

-- Larry Clapp

Excellent problem description and analysis. Patch applied --Joey