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| author | http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/ <http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/@web> | 2008-09-11 08:27:47 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2008-09-11 08:27:47 -0400 |
| commit | fb4a4e86335f21e88fe5eea763fb9dcdbe58492f (patch) | |
| tree | bb07876b7cc3797e3f626137040a3fac0ac203b7 /doc/todo/structured_page_data.mdwn | |
| parent | 91bb11721cceed3186cdf2de33d4aeae5114eb10 (diff) | |
Thoughts on structured data
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diff --git a/doc/todo/structured_page_data.mdwn b/doc/todo/structured_page_data.mdwn index bb23cfaa8..2b8309a67 100644 --- a/doc/todo/structured_page_data.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/structured_page_data.mdwn @@ -69,3 +69,37 @@ Additional tie-ins: See also: [[tracking_bugs_with_dependencies]] + +> I was also thinking about this for bug tracking. I'm not sure what +> sort of structured data is wanted in a page, so I decided to brainstorm +> use cases: +> +> * You just want the page to be pretty. +> * You want to access the data from another page. This would be almost like +> like a database lookup, or the OpenOffice Calc [VLookup](http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Calc:_VLOOKUP_function) function. +> * You want to make a pagespec depend upon the data. This could be used +> for dependancy tracking - you could match against pages listed as dependencies, +> rather than all pages linked from a given page. +> +>The first use case is handled by having a template in the page creation. You could +>have some type of form to edit the data, but that's just sugar on top of the template. +>If you were going to have a web form to edit the data, I can imagine a few ways to do it: +> +> * Have a special page type which gets compiled into the form. The page type would +> need to define the form as well as hold the stored data. +> * Have special directives that allow you to insert form elements into a normal page. +> +>I'm happy with template based page creation as a first pass... +> +>The second use case could be handled by a regular expression directive. eg: +> +> \[[regex spec="myBug" regex="Depends: ([^\s]+)"]] +> +> The directive would be replaced with the match from the regex on the 'myBug' page... or something. +> +>The third use case requires a pagespec function. One that matched a regex in the page might work. +>Otherwise, another option would be to annotate links with a type, and then check the type of links in +>a pagespec. e.g. you could have `depends` links and normal links. +> +>Anyway, I just wanted to list the thoughts. In none of these use cases is straight yaml or json the +>obvious answer. -- [[Will]] |