Re: stability of toc links

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Samuel Loury <konubinix@gmail.com> writes:

> The publish feature only means exporting several files at once. 

You can publish a single file, too. It makes sense when a file is always
exported to the same location, possibly with the same configuration.

> IIUC, what was written was that when using the publish feature, the exported
> html pages will be coherent and a link in one document pointing to
> another document of the same publish call won't be broken.
>
> But IIUC, publishing the whole stuff again will result in totally
> different links. They will still be coherent and no broken link from one
> document of the whole to another. But a browser bookmark pointing the
> published lot the first time won't work with the same lot the second
> time.
>
> Did I understand correctly?

That's correct. 

Org provides a mechanism, called `org-export-get-reference', for
creating internal references, which relies on randomness + cache. But it
explicitly removes internal references not actually used from there (see
`org-publish--store-crossrefs'). Keeping those references instead would
make all links stable, of course.

Regards,
-- 
Nicolas Goaziou