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diff --git a/doc/forum/an_alternative_approach_to_structured_data.mdwn b/doc/forum/an_alternative_approach_to_structured_data.mdwn index eb6ee4445..188e627f0 100644 --- a/doc/forum/an_alternative_approach_to_structured_data.mdwn +++ b/doc/forum/an_alternative_approach_to_structured_data.mdwn @@ -27,3 +27,27 @@ I have written additional plugins which integrate with the [[plugins/contrib/fie * [[plugins/contrib/ymlfront]] - looks for YAML-format data at the front of a page; this is just one possible back-end for the structured data --[[KathrynAndersen]] + +> I'm not an IkiWiki committer ([[Joey]] is the only one I think) +> but I really like the look of this scheme. In particular, +> having `getfield` interop with `field` without being *part of* +> `field` makes me happy, since I'm not very keen on `getfield`'s +> syntax (i.e. "ugh, yet another mini-markup-language without a +> proper escaping mechanism"), but this way people can experiment +> with different syntaxes while keeping `field` for the +> behind-the-scenes bits. +> +> My [[plugins/contrib/album]] plugin could benefit from +> integration with [[field]] for photos' captions and so on, +> probably... I'll try to work on that at some point. +> +> [[plugins/contrib/report]] may be doing too much, though: +> it seems to be an variation on `\[[inline archive="yes"]]`, +> with an enhanced version of sorting, a mini version of +> [[todo/wikitrails]], and some other misc. I suspect it could +> usefully be divided up into discrete features? One good way +> to do that might be to shuffle bits of its functionality into +> the IkiWiki distribution and/or separate plugins, until there's +> nothing left in `report` itself and it can just go away. +> +> --[[smcv]] |