Re: [PATCH] org-id: allow using parent's existing id in links to headlines

[Ihor Radchenko]

Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

> I am not excited by the idea of extending id links for heading 
> hierarchy. From my point of view it is more natural to add the ID 
> property to the heading that should be link target.
>
> Sometimes I do not mind to disambiguate heading search link by 
> specifying title of its ancestor. I usually add the CUSTOM_ID property 
> or rename heading to be unique.
>
> I am afraid that allowing arbitrary link types to specify path to an 
> element is overkill. It is not XPath and not CSS selectors.

I am looking at it from an opposite direction: we already have file:
links with ::search term, but file is not a very reliable link anchor.
File ID will persist even when the file is moved. So, instead of having
something like <file:/path/to/foo.org::* Heading>, we should better also
provide <id:ID::*heading> with ID defined in the top-level property
drawer. ID being some sub-heading is then a natural extension of the
same idea.

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