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Posted by Lothar Scholz
Feb 24, 2016 at 06:48 PM
Well what i want is that you can have a text document and then you can “stamp” data records in it. For example a document representing a company with the typical name, address fields but also some products i’m interested in in the same text document. Or a literature database with the book details and (quotes, pages) tuples.
In this case i would have one markup file which models a 1:N relation. If N is small strongly context bound and have few fields i found this very convenient.
In this case i cant get away with a header-body document model.
Posted by Lothar Scholz
Feb 24, 2016 at 06:53 PM
YAML is a nice suggestion. I just think that it is a bit to fragile for hand editing. Especially if nested and you want markup inside a field.
Also strict YAML does not offer the ability to have the same field name multiple times.
But thanks for the hint, i certainly will look inside it and maybe find some inspiration.
Posted by Dr Andus
Feb 24, 2016 at 07:33 PM
Lothar Scholz wrote:
Well what i want is that you can have a text document and then you can
>“stamp” data records in it. For example a document representing a
>company with the typical name, address fields but also some products i’m
>interested in in the same text document. Or a literature database with
>the book details and (quotes, pages) tuples.
ConnectedText works like that. Features such as categories, properties and attributes use a markup that have a “completion proposal,” meaning that the markup for them gets filled automatically as you start typing, and the value as well (after it has been entered at least once).