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An idea...



       Thinking about org charts, and the navbar.

       Imagine defining an employees as:

       <employee 
         orgchart=main
         id=web1
         title=webmaster 
	 reportsto=president
	 name="William Master"
	 img=w_master.jpg
	 phone="555-1214"
	 email="webmaster">

       <employee
         orgchart=main
         id=web2
         title="Member of Technical Staff"
	 reportsto=web1
	 name="Billy Master"
	 img=b_master.jpg
	 phone="555-1215"
	 email="bill">

	 ...

       <employee
         orgchart=main
         id=president
         title="President"
	 name="Fred Flintsone"
	 img=f_flintsone.jpg
	 phone="555-1201"
	 email="fred">
	 

	 And then saying:

	 <page title="Company Orgchart">
	 <body>
	 <orgchart main start=president>
	 </body>
	 </page>	 


and have it spit out a page that starts with the employee with id
specified by start (in this case "president"), with direct reports
listed underneath (likely using navbar:prolog and navbar:epilog type
specifications so that folks can lay it out left to right, or
vertical)

Each direct report, if they have direct reports, has a link to a page
that magically gets made which lists their direct reports.  Everyone's
email has a <a href="mailto:email"></a> tag around it. And so on.

Just an idea for those idle hackers out there...

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