Folks, Thanks for your suggestions. They each seem to result in me running down multiple rabbit holes, which is better than nothing, but it highlights the value of having an actual xml solution for TiddlyWiki
I will look into XML and WebServices https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_services.asp It is possibly all out of my depth, but I will look around and consider it with a bit more knowledge. Thanks Tony On Sunday, December 2, 2018 at 11:55:50 AM UTC+11, 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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/502dfdc5-6098-4700-b941-031de3f055e3%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
