An idea for within document anchor references

[Jason Kitcat]

Hi

Fletcher T. Penney <fletcher at alumni.duke.edu> said on 20/8/05:

>     When I was playing around with my own version of Markdown, and  

>using it for my wiki, I realized that I really wanted to be able to  

>create anchors to headers within a file.

>

>     My solution to that was to modify the header output so that each  

>header is attached to an id tag:

>

>         <h3 id="someheadertext">Some Header Text</h3>

>

>     The header tag is simply the concatenated form of the header,  

>with invalid punctuation characters removed (keeping it valid XHTML).


I think this is an excellent idea - though perhaps a trick or two is needed to prevent id collisions. I would find such a feature very useful.

regards,
Jason
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