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> It looks like an interesting idea. I don't have time right now to look at it in depth, but it looks interesting. -- [[Will]]
+> I agree such a separation makes some sense. But note that the discussion on [[todo/structured_page_data]]
+> talks about associating data types with fields for a good reason: It's hard to later develop a good UI for
+> querying or modifying a page's data if all the data has an implicit type "string". --[[Joey]]
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## Second Pass
I have written additional plugins which integrate with the [[plugins/contrib/field]] plugin to both set and get structured page data.