Hello, I asked a very related question some time ago:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/TXrQk1WCp8Q/vXMVruZFAQAJ and have not yet found a satisfactory result On Thursday, February 6, 2020 at 8:37:12 AM UTC-6, Mooglegirl wrote: > > It doesn't have to be a dictionary, I just used that formatting as an > example 🤔 In fact it doesn't have to be an existing data structure at all, > if there's a way for me to parse the raw text on my relationship tiddler > (even if that means getting my hands dirty with Javascript). > > On Thursday, February 6, 2020 at 8:32:05 AM UTC-6, Eric Shulman wrote: >> >> On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 7:57:41 PM UTC-8, Mooglegirl wrote: >>> >>> I have tiddlers for different characters in my story, and I want to >>> define a list of pair relationships with accompanying comments, and then >>> generate the relationships for a given character on the fly. For example, I >>> might have some hidden tiddler with something like: >>> >>> alice:bob (brother/sister) >>> bob:carlos (friends) >>> bob:darren (rivals) >>> darren:alice (boyfriend/girlfriend) >>> >>> >> There is a fundamental flaw in your intended design: in a >> DictionaryTiddler, which contains key:value pairs, each key must be unique, >> but in your example, you have two separate entries both with a key of "bob". >> >> To see the problem, try this on Tiddlywiki.com: >> >> 1) Create a tiddler (e.g., "MyData") containing the example content shown >> in your post and set the type of the tiddler to >> "application/x-tiddler-dictionary" >> 2) Create another tiddler (e.g., "MyTest") containing: {{MyData##bob}} >> >> Notice that only one result is shown: "darren (rivals)". >> >> To achieve the kind of design you want, you would have to make each key >> value unique (e.g., "bob-friends" and "bob-rivals"), but then it would be >> problematic to do a lookup for the "Bob" tiddler. You would have to get >> the list of all key names and remove any "-friends" and "-rivals" suffix to >> find the desired key entries, and then restore those suffices when you want >> to actually fetch the corresponding value for each matching key. The >> required code is complex and prone to errors in implementation. >> >> You might be able to address the problem by having separate >> DictionaryTiddlers for each type of relationship. Thus, you would have a >> "Friends" tiddler containing "Bob:Carlos" and a "Rivals" tiddler containing >> "Bob:Darren". Of course, this has it's own complexities, in that you would >> have to check every relationship tiddler to find and display any entries >> for "Bob". >> >> -e >> > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/cfa3a2f5-d3e4-4b10-8838-fa27fd4fab28%40googlegroups.com.
