Bug: Full Hiearchy Paths in Table-of-Contents Anchors

Autogenerated TOC's cannot distinguish between identically-named section nodes in different parts of the document. It ends up creating multiple target anchors with the same name. Resulting behavior is incorrect, and browser dependent to boot.

Test case

Here's a sample generated TOC.

Try clicking on the two "useful scripts" links and see where you end up.

A test hiearchy.

Task 1

(Filler text)

Useful Scripts

Task 2

(Filler text)

Useful Scripts

Environment

-- BrettLevin - 29 Oct 2002

Follow up

Suggested fix: anchor names should have the full hierarchical path to the section, or, better for legibility, as long a path as necessary to distinguish from other TOC links. #Task_1_Useful_Scripts rather than Useful_Scripts, etc...

This is a known bug, check TocFailsForIdenticalHeadingNames [ EB 30 oct 2002 ]

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