The confusing WebHome

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1

I am confused in the usage of WebHome when making a link. Is there any guild or rules of it?

2

You don’t need to add it.

3

In the following situation, WebHome must be added otherwise the link will break.

Main      // the main wiki
  + Page1
  +- SubWiki1
          + Page2

When I tried to make a link to SubWiki1:Page2 in Page1，[[SubWiki1:Page2]] will not work, while [SubWiki1:Page2.WebHome]] will work. Tested on 8.4.5 using wiki editor(not WYSIWYG).

4

Hmm that’s a good point. I don’t have the answer. It seems there’s a limitation for top level pages.

Does anyone remember why we have that? Or is it just a leftover that needs to be fixed?

5

Another wired case where WebHome must be added:

+ Page1
+ Page2
     + Page2.1

When I want to make a link to Page1 in Page2.1, [[Page1.WebHome]] will work, Otherwise the link will be broken. I am wondering the syntax to link from a subpage to a top level page. Maybe [[Page1.WebHome]] makes it a absolute path.

6

This is the same use case as before. Apparently when you link to a top level page you need the WebHome.

The syntax is avail here. You have in your wiki too.

7

Just because the syntax reference doesn’t explained the WebHome clearly, it confuses.

Maybe a better syntax for absolute path should be introduced like “/Page1” or so.

8

For the future we’d like to do this: http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/DeprecatingSpaceAndSpaceReference#HNewreferencesyntax

9

Thanks very much for sharing it, looks promising.