In terms of inspiration re the code, perhaps you could look at the evernote importer plugin. I believe it imports enex files, which are actually just another (I think) XML file.
Good luck -- Mark On Saturday, December 1, 2018 at 4:55:50 PM UTC-8, TonyM wrote: > > Folks, > > I have used toodledo.com and other online tools which export their > contents as xml. > > You may be aware that xml uses a simple system for representing data eg > <startdate>0</startdate> and it can be nested (see tasks/task below) > > It seems to me it should be easy to take any given xml and use a method to > parse it into tiddlers and their fields. If a field name needs to be > changed a search and replace should "fix the data" > > See also the locations, whose id is stored in the tasks. We should be able > parse these (in a separate process if necessary) such that we have > location tiddlers that can be linked to or looked up from the task tiddler. > > Basically I think we need to chose which field to use as the title and > which other fields to import or include in the text. > > With a little careful design it should be simple to provide the tools to > do this, and open a great deal of power, especially if we can also generate > the xml for tiddlers for export. It need not be interactive. For example if > I could say something like this > xmllist sourcetiddler items=task title=title text=note fieldfilter="[all[]] > -[prefix[time]]" > from sourcetiddler extract <task> items using their title field as the > tiddler title, place note into text, and make a field with its value for > all others defined by fieldfilter. > > Perhaps the ability to map an incoming "filedname"'s to another fiels name > would also be important eg parent=master would take the content of > <parent>parent name</parent> and put it in the field master. > > *Has anyone looked into this or seen any activity on it?* > > Regards > Tony > > > <locations> > > <location><id>106960</id><lat>-33.900589</lat><lon>151.196457</lon><name>Alexandria > > park</name><desc></desc></location> > </locations> > > > <tasks> > <task> > <id>324412672</id> > <date_added>1368964800</date_added> > <date_modified>1399682850</date_modified> > <via>7</via> > <parent>0</parent> > <order>0</order> > <title>Coaxial cable to test voxson</title> > <tag></tag> > <folder>3154339</folder> > <context>0</context> > <goal>0</goal> > <location>23515</location> > <startdate>0</startdate> > <starttime>0</starttime> > <duedate>0</duedate> > <remind>0</remind> > <duedatemod>0</duedatemod> > <duetime>0</duetime> > <completed>0</completed> > <repeatfrom>0</repeatfrom> > <repeat></repeat> > <priority>0</priority> > <length>0</length> > <timeron>0</timeron> > <timer>0</timer> > <status>0</status> > <star>0</star> > <note>Tv to voxson after fix voxson > Only front right working with any speaker > Front left worked momentarily.</note> > </task> > </tasks> > > > -- 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 post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/2479a392-657a-4dd1-a527-fb37013b4307%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
