format.md

AutoTOC format

The $Autotoc tag is a tree that can be represented with the following pseudocode:

$Autotoc = ArrayData( $Children <- <CHILDREN> )
<CHILDREN> = ArrayList( <ITEM> )
<ITEM> = ArrayData( $Id, $Title [, $Children <- <CHILDREN> ] )

In a more SilverStripe way, this can be seen as:

$Autotoc
    $Children[]
        $Id
        $Title
        $Children[]

Autotoc.ss and AutotocItem.ss show a way to render the whole table of contents by leveraging mutual recursion between two templates. The format used there is intentionally compatible with the Bootstrap navlist component, so it can be used and it will be properly handled by the Silverstrap theme.