On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Francis Davey<[email protected]> wrote: > Its very very easy to parse anything structured in a mediawiki (just a > few regular expressions and a bit of code), so anything in a table or > a template can be parsed even if there's nothing cleverer there. I've > not tried Semantic MediaWiki but given that the unimproved system can > be (and is) used by people interested in structured data, I'm sure it > is good.
It is. In one of my possibly madder moments a few years back I actually built a small business accounting system on top of it that's still in active use today (and withstood two HMRC inspections of the business): http://nothing.tmtm.com/archives/2582 http://nothing.tmtm.com/archives/2584 The reporting side of Semantic MediaWiki has gotten a lot better over the last few years, but as it stores all the semantic information in their own tables, it's also easy to write your own scripts to just act directly on the underlying database (as we did for complex reports like producing a P&L). Tony _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
