If a page gives multiple values for a property, which one wins when you sort on that property?
In my local tests on SMW 1.1.2. I can't see any pattern to it. On http://sandbox.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Test_sorting (version 1.2f-SVN) it seems to sort using the "first" value on the page for the property. That page sorts by Author and many papers put each author annotation alphabetically. But this paper appears in the 'B's despite having some 'A' authors: Using and Combining RDF Vocabularies for Expert Finding Boanerges Aleman-Meza Lyndon JB Nixon Axel Polleres <--- !! John G. Breslin Harold Boley Anna V. Zhdanova <--- !! Malgorzata Mochol Uldis Bojars If I sort descending, again SMW seems to sort on the first value it finds for the property. ==> Is this a bug? You could define a sort order, e.g. if ascending sort based on the lowest value of the property's values on the page. A while ago Markus told me the order of property values for a page retrieved from the database was indeterminate, so values might not be returned in page order, so there's no "first" property value on a page. ==> Should http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Semantic_search#Sorting_results just say "If pages have multiple values for the property, their sort order is undefined." ? Or I could just not say anything ;-) Thanks for any insight! -- =S Page ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
