[pmwiki-users] Fwd: Custom markup for standardised table

The Editor editor at fast.st
Wed Jul 19 08:11:52 CDT 2006


Excellent suggestion for me at least, Pico.  I am hoping to get
started on a shopping cart system in the next few weeks, once I get a
data-storage recipe completed first.  This will be a nice way to setup
the data.  It also makes it easy to update individual items quite
easily.

Cheers,
Caveman



On 7/19/06, Pico <pmwiki at ben-amotz.com> wrote:
> Allister Jenks wrote:
> > I'm trying to create a markup that will allow me to quickly created
> > standardised tables in my pages as follows:
> >
> > (:CatStart:)
> > (:CatLine id="xxx" desc="something" price="4.00":)
> > (:CatLine id="yyy" desc="nothing" price="5.00":)
> > (:CatEnd:)
> [snip]
> Sounds like an interesting project.  If the frustration level gets too
> high, you might step back and consider how far you can get with exiting
> markup.
>
> Specifically, if you combine tables with pagelists, the structure of the
> table can be defined in the pagelist template and the content can be
> placed on structured pages in a group where, for example, the page name
> is the id, the content is the price and the description is in a
> description directive (or where each element appears on a designated
> line, or where  anchors are used to separate element, which can then be
> located anywhere on the page...)  With such structured pages, then you
> can add categories and keywords, and/or manually create wikitrail lists,
> that can be used to power pagelist directives that selectively populate
> your tables.
>
> Pico
>
> P.S.  Apologies, in advance, if you already identified and rejected such
> approaches, in which case, please consider this post as being for the
> benefit of others who read your e-mail and are left with the impression
> that a system for quickly creating standardized table for purposes such
> as inventory and pricing lists might require coding custom markup.
>
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