Hi Erik,

thanks for your reply.

On Jan 27, 7:17 pm, Eric Shulman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > When I was looking at the tiddlytools export tiddlers plugin, I saw
> > that it generates a different PureStore format.  This format has the
> > advantage that tiddler content is visible in plain html.  However it
> > seems to me that using the export tiddlers plugin to generate
> > PureStore can be quite dangerous, because it seems not to generate all
> > fields in PureStore if a tiddler has extra fields defined.
>
> That is *not* correct.  TiddlyTools' ExportTiddlersPlugin (and also
> SaveAsPlugin), both use TW core functions for generating the tiddler
> data output.  The TW standard HTML format for a stored tiddler, as
> generated by the core function, is:
>
>   <div title="..." modifier="..." created="..." modified="..."
> tags="..." customfield="..." customfield2="..." changecount="...">
>    CONTENT GOES HERE
>   </div>
>
> This format includes both core-defined tiddler fields, as well as
> custom-defined fields that have been assigned to that tiddler.  This
> is the format written into the PureStore files generated by
> ExportTiddlersPlugin (or SaveAsPlugin).

Sorry, my interpretation of the code was wrong.


> One significant difference between Saq's PureStore format and
> TiddlyTools' format, is that Saq's format does NOT include an internal
> 'file markers' used to signal the END of the storeArea, either:
>         <!--POST-STOREAREA-->
> or
>         <!--POST-BODY-START-->
>
> These markers were added to the TW standard format quiet some time ago
> (but after Saq wrote his description of PureStore), and are used by
> various core functions as well as external applications to locate and
> extract the tiddler data from a TW file.  Note: Saq's format still
> works only because the TW core has fallback-logic that, if the markers
> are not present, simply uses the entire remainder of the file content.

So PureStore is from Saq and not from abego?  Do you have a pointer to
Saq's description of the format?

yours,

Vlak

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