Hi, Just thought about it. .. We will also need to make sure, that the "relink-plugin" can handle this new stuff -mario
On Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 9:12:08 PM UTC+1 Soren Bjornstad wrote: > I'm really liking the idea of piggybacking on the existing extended link > syntax -- better than the versions I suggested off the top of my head in my > original post. And thanks for the technical background. > > On not wanting to put arbitrary text between the [['s: this seems like > exactly the same issue that we have with filter operators/fields, so could > we use the same solution? Have a hard-coded string *?* or *type* or > something that serves as an unambiguous syntax, and then people can choose > to use that or not (this would also let them call a relationship, e.g., > *img*). If they use the implicit form and someone else later comes along > and overloads it to mean something else, then that's on them to go back and > add the full format to disambiguate it. > > Mark, for more on the use case, also see my post > <https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/C0CqNyKU1Jc/m/5sFLzH7XAQAJ> that > Diego mentioned in the OP. > > On Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 7:41:42 AM UTC-6 PMario wrote: > >> On Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 2:14:38 PM UTC+1 PMario wrote: >> >> title: Jack >>> [? stepson[Joe]], [? daughter[Jill]] and [? wife[Jane]] >>> >> >> Some technical background. At the moment TW builds the "backlink" >> information at "parsing time", when the parse-tree is created. Parsing the >> tiddler content is a very "heavy weight" function. .. It need quite some >> CPU cycles. ... That's why this info is cached and only recreated if a >> tiddler changes. >> >> If someone uses the eg: backlinks[] >> <https://tiddlywiki.com/#backlinks%20Operator> operator, the TW core has >> to touch every tiddler and parse it. Then it internally searches the >> parse-tree for a pattern like: >> >> "type": "link", >> "attributes": { >> "to": { >> "type": "string", >> "value": "Joe" >> } >> }, >> >> and it stores some info in the indexer. ... Since we have to "run" all >> this code already, it shouldn't be too much of a hassle to add additional >> info to the link structure. eg: >> >> "type": "link", >> "attributes": { >> "to": { >> "type": "string", >> "value": "Joe" >> }, >> "relation": { >> "type": "string", >> "value": "stepson" >> } >> }, >> >> In a second step, this info can be "indexed" and we can create filter >> operators for it. >> >> -mario >> >> -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/7573c30e-4f97-4aaa-8385-7885c4f5676dn%40googlegroups.com.
