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This template is used to create an anchor without requiring a specific (sub) section header to be made.

This template is used to create an anchor without requiring a specific (sub) section header to be made.

The main purpose is to allow the translation of links without interfering in the translation of content. The most usual 'problem' arising when translating is that some section titles are much less immutable than the original. For example, in the [[HIG]] there's the concept of [[OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/The Laptop Experience/Zoom Metaphor#Home|Home]]. The word itself may have several possible translations in a given language, and one may be prefered to others but may not have been the 'initial' choosing. In later revisions, the header could be changed for a ''better wording'', but then all the links pointing to it would be broken.  The solution is to use this template as the ''anchor'' for the original language header.

The main purpose is to allow the translation of links without interfering in the translation of content. The most usual 'problem' arising when translating is that some section titles are much less immutable than the original. For example, in the [[HIG]] there's the concept of [[OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/The Laptop Experience/Zoom Metaphor#Home|Home]]. The word itself may have several possible translations in a given language, and one may be preferred to others but may not have been the 'initial' choosing. In later revisions, the header could be changed for a ''better wording'', but then all the links pointing to it would be broken.  The solution is to use this template as the ''anchor'' for the original language header.

; Example : In a page you are translating there's the following link:

; Example : In a page you are translating there's the following link:

           <nowiki>[[OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/The Laptop Experience/Zoom Metaphor/lang-xx#Home]]</nowiki>  # Translated link

           <nowiki>[[OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/The Laptop Experience/Zoom Metaphor/lang-xx#Home]]</nowiki>  # Translated link

: The linking of translated pages (and their sections) can be done regardless of how the ''Home'' section header was translated &mdash; in [[spanish]] it could be translated as either ''[[OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/The Laptop Experience/Zoom Metaphor/lang-es#Home|Hogar]]'' or ''[[OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/The Laptop Experience/Zoom Metaphor/lang-es#Home|Casa]]''&mdash;both actually linking to the ''anchor'' [[OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/The Laptop Experience/Zoom Metaphor/lang-es#Home|#Home]] and will both work.

: The linking of translated pages (and their sections) can be done regardless of how the ''Home'' section header was translated &mdash; in [[Spanish]] it could be translated as either ''[[OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/The Laptop Experience/Zoom Metaphor/lang-es#Home|Hogar]]'' or ''[[OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/The Laptop Experience/Zoom Metaphor/lang-es#Home|Casa]]''&mdash;both actually linking to the ''anchor'' [[OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/The Laptop Experience/Zoom Metaphor/lang-es#Home|#Home]] and will both work.

: It's also possible to link the translated terms ''[[OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/The Laptop Experience/Zoom Metaphor/lang-es#Hogar|#Hogar]]'' or ''[[OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/The Laptop Experience/Zoom Metaphor/lang-es#Casa|#Casa]]''&mdash;but in this case, one of them will not work.

: It's also possible to link the translated terms ''[[OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/The Laptop Experience/Zoom Metaphor/lang-es#Hogar|#Hogar]]'' or ''[[OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/The Laptop Experience/Zoom Metaphor/lang-es#Casa|#Casa]]''&mdash;but in this case, one of them will not work.

== History & Credits ==

== History & Credits ==

The concept of ''anchor'' is essential to hypertext. The adaptation of using <tt>&lt;div id="original header"/&gt;</tt> (a ruthless hack) was done by [[User:Xavi|Xavi]] after discovering that the <tt>&lt;a&gt;</tt> is not allowed.  That solution broke down after an update of the wiki. The solution was to switch to an html compliant <tt>&lt;div id="original header"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</tt>. If the anchor had been originally reified (instead of manually embeding it in the wiki text) a simple update of the [[Template:Anchor]] would've solved the problem.

The concept of ''anchor'' is essential to hypertext. The adaptation of using <tt>&lt;div id="original header"/&gt;</tt> (a ruthless hack) was done by [[User:Xavi|Xavi]] after discovering that the <tt>&lt;a&gt;</tt> is not allowed.  That solution broke down after an update of the wiki. The solution was to switch to an html compliant <tt>&lt;div id="original header"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</tt>. If the anchor template had been originally defined (instead of manually embedding it in the wiki text) a simple update of the <nowiki>[[Template:Anchor]]</nowiki> would've solved the problem.

So now, this is part of a (hopefully) better solution &mdash; suggestion by [[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]].

So now, this is part of a (hopefully) better solution &mdash; suggestion by [[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]].

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