2009/1/23 Alex Le Bek <alexle...@googlemail.com>:
> What a relief to see this discussion... I have been worrying about this and
> would be so grateful for a solution. The use of 'multiple' on forms brings
> this difficultly into sharp focus.
Can one SF form create multiple pages?
> Alex
>
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Patrick Nagel <m...@patrick-nagel.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> the following parts of this discussion make it clear once again, that
>> actually
>> usable many-valued properties are an important feature. The lack of it
>> causes
>> great trouble for a lot of SMW users.
>>
>> > Dan Bolser wrote:
>> [...]
>> > > If I have several 'semantic' template calls on a page, like:
>> > >
>> > > {{car | id=1 | color=red | speed=fast }}
>> > > {{car | id=2 | color=blue | speed=fast }}
>> > > {{car | id=3 | color=red | speed=slow }}
>> > > {{car | id=4 | color=pink | speed=fast }}
>> [...]
>> > > How do I actually get back the fact that car ID=4 is pink and
>> fast?
>> > > And can I do that in a table for each car without putting the
>> > > information across several pages (one page per car)?
>>
>> > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Temlakos <temla...@gmail.com
>> > <mailto:temla...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> [...]
>> > Now I don't pretend to understand N-ary properties--how to annotate
>> > them, or how to query them. I suspect, but cannot prove, that the
>> answer
>> > to your problem might lie in defining a car as an N-ary property of
>> the
>> > article. In that way, you'd have four cars, each with its own
>> unique
>> > combination of ID, color, and speed attributes. But I have never
>> once
>> > figured out how to define, annotate, and query an N-ary property.
>> >
>> > Which also goes to show the number-one failing of the Semantic
>> MediaWiki
>> > project: /Lack of adequate documentation/.
>> [...]
>>
>> On 2009-01-22 23:12, Yaron Koren wrote:
>> [...]
>> > I don't understand the tone - as far as I know, no one on this list has
>> > ever just told anyone "read the manual". In any case, the reason you
>> > haven't been able to find any documentation on n-ary relations is that
>> > they're not supported in Semantic MediaWiki (though I hope they will be
>> > some day). What is supported are many-valued properties:
>> >
>> > http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Many-valued_properties
>> >
>> > These are similar to n-ary relations, although with a few key
>> > weaknesses: one can't separate out the values for display in a query,
>> so
>> > that showing the results in separate columns of a table won't be
>> > possible. Also, none of the values in the property can be enumerations,
>> > i.e. with a limited set of allowed values. But Dan - it should be
>> > possible to at least get all the correct data to show up in a query;
>> [...]
>>
>> please, SMW developers, make this a priority :)
>>
>> Patrick.
>>
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