From: Thomas B. <Tho...@gm...> - 2007-12-03 15:48:22
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* cnit <cn...@un...> [2007-12-03 16:24]: > May I suggest another kind of ask format? Sometimes it's desirable to > get only a simple count of rows instead of the query result rows. So, > if there's a 5 rows in the query result, ask format=3D"count" would > return a number 5. It may be useful to statistics, in further > computations in templates and so on... format=3D"count" already exists, since at least SMW 0.7. > I really think that SMW requires a better documentation on new > formats of queries, #ask and subqueries. Because the only > documentation I've used is outdated: > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Substitution > e.g. no new features, no subqueries here and so on.. ??? This page mentions SMW, but it's hardly related to it. Have you looked at ontoworld.org or http://semantic-mediawiki.org/? I agree that the wiki pages there need improvement, and hopefully that will happen once 1.0 is released (personally, I'm currently refraining =66rom doing any work on the site, because many things have changed between 0.7 and 1.0 and it's not so easy to separate it; I hope 1.0 will be released soon, so the old information about 0.7 can be replaced) But such documentation doesn't write itself. Maybe you can rework the wiki pages on semantic-mediawiki.org with the things you have already learned about SMW 1.0. That would surely be appreciated. Regards, Thomas |