I don't know what you mean by "a list data". Do you mean some type of list 
field?

I don't know what you mean by "wikitext" only. Are you including or 
excluding Widgets?

It might help to understand the reasons behind your suggested limitations.

Have fun,
-- Mark

On Sunday, September 16, 2018 at 9:02:06 AM UTC-7, Mat wrote:
>
> Asking for advice;
>
> What is a good format that can be easily manipulated in TW for the 
> following content.
>
> I want a list data corresponding to an *arbitrary amount of tiddlers*. 
> Each item has a specified amount of data such as;
>
>    - tiddler title
>    - modification date
>    - meta data (i.e fieldvalue from a field named meta)
>    - version (i.e fieldvalue from a field named version)
>    
>
> The "meta data" is arbitrary whereas the other data is restricted to the 
> usual formats with regard to those fields in tiddlers. It is OK to restrict 
> "meta data", e.g to say it must not contain special characters or that it 
> has a maximum number of characters, etc. Overall, many tiddlers will miss 
> some of the data.
>
> Now I want to be able to manipulate this data using *wikitext* ideally. 
> TW does not have a set of user tools to e.g manipulate json as far as I 
> know. I come to this from an end user perspective so I'm limited to e.g the 
> "split before" filter operator to separate out stuff from a text.
>
> My question is... what is the optimal format for such a list? What 
> *delimiters* should be used between the items and between their 
> respective fields? Should the items perhaps be put in different fields of 
> the listing tiddler? Some kind if table? Data tiddlers? Is it just very 
> problematic with my wikitext limitation to manipulate it? How else?
>
> I understand my question is vague and I'm likely missing to state some 
> conditions for the context of it, but I'm still interested to hear what you 
> have to say.
>
> Thank you!
>
> <:-)
>

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