On Montag, 21. Januar 2008, Petr Andreyev wrote: > Hi Markus, > > During parsing, SMW will store all semantic data contained in an articles > > > text > > (whether revision or current) within the SMWFactbox::$semdata which is an > > object of class SMWSemanticData. You could access that object *after > > parsing* > > to extract data directly. I do not see another way of solving that. Some > > problems may still occur, since SMW depends on non-local data (e.g. > > datatypes > > of properties) that will influence parsing, but that is not versioned. I > > think MW has some similar issues with old revisions using current > > versions of > > templates. > > Thanks for the hint. > > It can solve the issue. > But what I would expect from SMW (a kind of natural functionality) is being > able to work with semantic properties of any given article in PHP code. > This would mean in particular (as a basic level) having access to the props > of the currently displayed article (any revision). > > Why I find this functionality natural? SMW extends articles with semantic > properties. So, for an object representing article there should be methods > available for dealing with its semantic properties. So, it's natural just > from the point of view of OO. > > I think implementing this mechanism would open many new applications of > SMW.
Yes, I understand. Basically the idea would be to have OO-based access to the semantic storage. I think the next step to a better interface is to completely remove MW objects from the storage interface: we already use SMWDataValue for all annotation objects (including pages), we now should also use it everywhere for subjects. Also, there should be a new container (SMWDataValue?) for properties, so they are not represented by Titles. But all this requires some time ... if you have some to spare, you can propose interfaces for what you have in mind, but I will not have major coding time within the next weeks (e.g. documentation is still missing). Best regards, Markus -- Markus Krötzsch Institut AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), 76128 Karlsruhe phone +49 (0)721 608 7362 fax +49 (0)721 608 5998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www http://korrekt.org
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