On Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 4:21:58 AM UTC+2 Mark S. wrote: > In other systems data tiddlers (or their equivalents) are a foundational > aspect of their design. Not so in TW. In TW data tiddlers are just a > stop-gap, a convenience tool to be used in a limited set of circumstance. > For instance, note that JSON data tiddlers can only go one level deep.
That's right. Try doing anything more than very simple data referencing, and you'll find > that there are very few filter operators that work with data tiddlers. For > instance, there is no filter operator to obtain all the values of a data > tiddler. > See: https://wikilabs.github.io/editions/keyvalues/ ... It can fix that and imo makes working with data tiddlers more convenient. > In TW, the fundamental data structure is the tiddler. There are lots and > lots of filter operators that know how to deal with tiddlers and tiddler > fields. Data tiddlers are meant for simple one-to-one lookups, like with > the color palettes. Beyond that and they become too onerous to work with. > That's right and Jeremy has some strong reasoning for that. Data tiddler handling, makes the core code more complex. See my PR for the above plugin at github: https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/3971#issuecomment-500122689 ++ have fun! mario -- 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/3faf5f03-cead-4547-90f4-a8a91a1cad04n%40googlegroups.com.
