--[[Paweł|ptecza]]
+> Just found out that headers are already indexed with `index1h1 ... indexMhN`.
+> So one can link to headings with `\[[page|#index2h3]]` for example.
+> It would be much easier though if it was translated to the heading's name,
+> so on could to `\[[page#name]]`. --Timoses
+
+>> That's [[plugins/headinganchors]]. --smcv
+
> No such syntax exists in markdown. ikiwiki could certainly have a
> [[preprocessor_directive|directive]] for it, though.
> --[[JoshTriplett]]
>> Fixed that --[[Joey]]
+>>> Sorry to bring this up (1 year since last change in this page) but what is the status of this? Can we use anchors like it's in [[wikilink]]? This discusion is tagged as wishlist, but isn't listed in [[wishlist]]. What is "fixed that" then? Again, sorry if this is a dead issue, but I have a tendency to create big wiki pages, and anchors are very needed for me, but I've spent all morning trying to make it work and it just doesn't. TY. --rbern
+
The 'name' attribute of the 'a' element is a depracated way to create a named anchor. The right way to do that is using the 'id' attribute of any element. This is because an anchor may refer to a complete element rather than some point in the page.
Standard purity aside, if you define an anchor (using either 'a name' or 'id') to a single point in the document but refer to a complete section, the browser may just show that specific point at the bottom of the page rather than trying to show all the section.
> I'm not sure that it is a good idea to refer to arbitrary meta tags in links in the first place - what other meta tags would you really be interested in? Description? Author? It makes sense to me to refer to the title, because that is a "label" for a page.
> As for syntax, I do like the \[[|foobar]] idea, or perhaps something like what <a href="http://www.pmwiki.org">PmWiki</a> does - they have their links the other way around, so they go \[[page|label]] and for link-text-as-title, they have \[[page|+]]. So for IkiWiki, that would be \[[+|page]] I guess.
> --[[KathrynAndersen]]
+
+----
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+I am thinking that it would be useful to parse parts of one wiki page into another. Here something like `\[[page=anchor]]` would be really nice to simply parse the content of that section, as opposed to `\[[page#anchor]]` which only creates a link to that section. -- [[Timoses]]
+
+> When you say "parse parts" do you mean taking a section of a wiki page and including its text
+> in a different wiki page? So for instance you might want `/installation` to include the
+> `Downloading binaries` section of `/download`, but not the rest of that page?
+>
+> That's really a separate feature request (inlining isn't linking), and is also rather difficult
+> to do in IkiWiki's processing model: at the time that [[wikilinks|ikiwiki/wikilink]] and
+> [[directives|ikiwiki/directive]] are processed, the page content is still Markdown or
+> whatever other format is relevant, not HTML. That makes sections difficult to identify.
+>
+> I would suggest making the desired section a separate page (for example you might
+> call it `/download/binaries`), and including that whole page everywhere it should
+> appear (for example in both `/download` and `/installation`) using
+> `\[[!inline pages="download/binaries" raw=yes]]`. --[[smcv]]