Re: [SMW-devel] Move #arraymap, #arraymaptemplate into SMW?

[Dan B. <dan...@gm...>]

2009/1/20 Daniel Friesen <dan...@te...>:
> Agreed, the arraymaps should be part of SMW. For things like infoboxes,
> whether you are using SF or not, you still need to use the arraymap for
> annotating lists. So #arraymap is used in far more SMW cases than actual SF
> cases.
>
> Actually, on a note, it might be a nice idea to build a sort of #askmap or
> something into SMW, or perhaps some kind of format to #ask with some inline
> formatting.

If the syntax of inline formatting is well thought out I would agree
with this point. I'm thinking of the DPL, where the syntax can get
quite messy and can be quite restrictive.


> {{#ask: [[Category:Character]] [[Classification::Meister]]
> [[Weapon::{{PAGENAME}}]] | format=list | replace=$s$ |
> inline=[[Meister::$s$]] }}
> Say [[Stein]] and [[Kami]] were annotated with [[Weapon::Spirit]]. This
> would expand to "[[Meister::Stein]] and [[Meister::Kami]]" on Spirit's page.
>
> ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://nadir-seen-fire.com]
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>
> Yaron Koren wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been thinking recently about components of Semantic Forms that really
> belong in Semantic MediaWiki, because they're not related to forms. Special
> pages like 'Templates' or 'CreateProperty' are obvious candidates, though
> you could make a case for them staying because (a) SF takes a more
> template-centric approach, and (b) helper forms are forms in their own
> right. But the features of SF for which I don't think any strong case could
> be made for keeping them there are the #arraymap and #arraymaptemplate
> parser functions, which are used to to map a semantic property or other
> action, like a widget call, onto each value of a list. I think it makes
> sense to have these somewhere within the SMW system, since SMW takes a
> text-as-data approach that isn't shared by most other MediaWiki usages, but
> there's nothing form-specific about these functions. In fact, I believe
> that in a few cases people have installed Semantic Forms just to have access
> to these functions. So, any thoughts on moving them directly into SMW?
>
> I know the general effort is to make SMW as small and lightweight as
> possible, but this functionality doesn't take up that much code, and as
> someone once said, one should "keep things as simple as possible, but no
> simpler".
>
> -Yaron
>
>
>
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