On Friday, 9 Dec 2016 at 15:29, John Kitchin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have an idea for how I could transclude "copies" or links to
[...]
> Any thoughts? Do you see any potential issues?
Potentially very interesting and useful idea. Some thoughts/issues:
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- what about more than level of indirection: link to a trancluded
headline which transcludes to another etc. What is shown? Is there a
performance hit?
- what happens if the destination moves or gets deleted? the link to
it, which looked like something "complete" is now meaningless. This
could be quite confusing. This is probably the most serious issue.
- the table aspect is almost a "view" on a database which is really
appealing but would benefit from a fully defined syntax a la sql?
Would table formulas work as expected from the view of the contents?
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- could we have "read-only" views? I may not want the original touched.
- how does an export work? On the view or the actual contents?