On Data Dictionary tiddlers; I believe the handling of ata Dictionary tiddlers needs improvement not deprecation, even if it is not a de jure standard.
Why? Because even just the "index: value" format is used all over the internet. a Range of settings files, calendar or address file standards out there use this standard. JSON could be argued to be superior, however there are many places that use simple text files and possibly always will. To be able to drop/import such a file and write a little wiki text to interrogate the content of such files is a great opportunity for further integration with a range of data sources. Improvement examples; - Parse text in a tiddler to extract index value pairs including extracting recurring groups such the result can be iterated or indexed. - Data dictionary to JSON tools etc... tony On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 9:17:10 PM UTC+11, Hubert wrote: > > Hi HC, > > >> "data tiddlers won't be worked on" does that mean that dictionary >> tiddlers should be avoided?? > > > Regarding long-term support for data tiddlers (of which there are two main > types: dictionary and json), you might be interested in this thread > <https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/tiddlywiki/n_4IWZqHIEs/nbRAykfMAgAJ> > . > > As it stands, they are candidates for deprecation. I still use them a lot > though, especially for thousands of small data points. > > Just a slightly OT note. > > Regards, > Hubert > > On Wednesday, 5 February 2020 10:05:54 UTC, HC Haase wrote: >> >> >> >> onsdag den 5. februar 2020 kl. 03.28.43 UTC+1 skrev A Gloom: >>> >>> This doesn't help with writing titles to a data tiddler-- I don't know >>> if urlencode with encode : but you must make those extra :'s into : >>> for the data tiddler ignore them-- its only needed in title section >>> before the data tiddler : seperator-- in the value section after the >>> seperator it's not an issue >>> >> >> I don't understand what you are saying here.. are you saying, that you >> could change the colon to url :? "the value section after the >> separator it's not an issue"- that part I understand. Good to know. >> >> >>> Mohammad is correct-- json is better especially since data tiddlers >>> won't be worked on (but still supported) in the core any longer iirc >>> >>> Look at this at TWScripts-- I went by this when converting to data >>> tiddlers to json >>> >>> https://kookma.github.io/TW-Scripts/#A%20Dictionary%20Project >>> >> >> For my problem I followd Mohammads advice and just used a json tiddler. >> workd perfectly. >> >> "data tiddlers won't be worked on" does that mean that dictionary >> tiddlers should be avoided?? as I understand it, the json can do the same >> as the dictionary and more, so I don't see the need for the dictionary >> type. But then again I dont know much about the issue. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/9dcbbcff-e2c8-4058-b457-353509794e74%40googlegroups.com.
