Re: [Semediawiki-user] Summary of GSoC project "Implementing section handling in Semantic Forms"

[Neill M. <ne...@nl...>]

Hi Himeshi.

This sounds very useful functionality indeed. Congratulations and thanks 
for all your effort!

Best regards
Neill.
On 01/10/13 16:27, Himeshi De Silva wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> During the Google Summer of Code 2013 program that concluded recently I
> worked on implementing section handling in the Semantic Forms
> extension[1][2] which also involved enabling the Page Schemas extension[3]
> to handle sections as well. This means that now, not only templates but
> sections too can be defined in forms. The work also included adding unit
> tests to the Semantic Forms extension.
>
> In SF a new {{{section}}} tag was introduced to the form definition syntax
> to define sections in forms. The Special:CreateForm helper page allows you
> to add sections to forms by specifying the section name and also modify its
> properties. If you want to add sections manually the basic usage is -
> {{{section|<section_name>|level=<header_level>}}}. The "level" parameter
> here is optional.
>
> PS now supports a <Section> XML element to be included in the schema to
> define sections. The Special:EditSchema page can be used to add sections to
> the schema and modify their attributes. As before "Generate pages" will
> create the form with the templates and sections in the schema.
>
> These changes can be tried out by pulling the latest code from Git. Section
> handling for SF and PS will be available with their next released versions.
> Any feedback or bug reports are welcome.
>
> Many thanks to Yaron Koren who mentored this GSoC project and to everybody
> who reviewed code and provided suggestions for improvement. It has been a
> wonderful learning experience and I hope the newly added section handling
> capabilities will be useful in defining a more complete structure for forms!
>
> [1].
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Himeshi/GSoC_2013/Project#Project_Description
> [2].http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms
> [3]. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Page_Schemas
>
> -Himeshi-
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