This document exist solely as a test for some of the hyperlinking capabilities of Markdown as implemented by Fossil.

Relative-Path Links

• The index: ../index.wiki

• Load management: ../loadmgmt.md

• Site-map: ../../../../sitemap

• Windows CGI: ../server/windows/cgi.md

The Magic $ROOT Path Prefix

In text of the form href="$ROOT/..." in the HTML that markdown generates, the $ROOT is replaced by the complete URI for the root of the document tree. Note that the $ROOT translation only occurs within the <a href="..."> element, not within the text of the hyperlink. So you should see the $ROOT text on this page, but if you mouse-over the hyperlink the $ROOT value should have been expanded to the actual document root.

• Timeline: $ROOT/timeline

• Site-map: $ROOT/sitemap

The $ROOT prefix on markdown links is superfluous. The same link works without the $ROOT prefix. (Though: the $ROOT prefix is required for HTML documents.)

• Timeline: /timeline

• Help: /help?cmd=help

• Site-map: /sitemap

The Magic $CURRENT Document Version Translation

In URI text of the form .../doc/$CURRENT/... the $CURRENT value is converted to the version number of the document currently being displayed. This conversion happens after translation into HTML and only occurs on href='...' attributes so it does not occur for plain text.

• Document index: /doc/$CURRENT/www/index.wiki

Both the $ROOT and the $CURRENT conversions can occur on the same link.

• Document index: $ROOT/doc/$CURRENT/www/index.wiki

The translations must be contained within HTML markup in order to work. They do not work for ordinary text that appears to be an href= attribute.

• x href='$ROOT/timeline'
• x action="$ROOT/whatever"
• x href="https://some-other-site.com/doc/$CURRENT/tail"