Oh, OK - yes, this was partly an idea behind POM, right ;)

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Yaron Koren <yaro...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Actually, Semantic Forms already has querying functionality - the "Run
> query" feature:
>
> [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms#Querying_data
>
> Hauke - Were you aware of this? If so, how would what you're proposing be
> different?
>
> Sergey - He was talking about using the addition of querying as an excuse
> to refactor SF to use POM - which is not a bad instinct in principle. :)
>
> <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms#Querying_data>
> -Yaron
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Sergey Chernyshev <
> sergey.chernys...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure if you can reuse SF form language as it seems to be targeted
>> specifically at data entry.
>> Also, did you check out Semantic DrillDown? It does some filtered
>> navigation and allows for drop-downs and stuff.
>>
>> Not sure how POM is related to this... did you include wrong link?
>>
>>         Sergey
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Hauke Pribnow <hauke.prib...@gmx.net>wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everybody!
>>>
>>> While working on my Semantic Multi Edit Page I got the idea of also
>>> creating another extension for Semantic MediaWiki which would allow
>>> more-skilled users to create something like "search forms" for
>>> less-skilled users who might not directly understand the semantic query
>>> syntax.
>>>
>>> It would be great if the form design syntax for such an extension was
>>> similar to the one of the already existing Semantic Forms extension; IMO
>>> it would make even more sense to pretty much re-design the FormPrinter
>>> from scratch and - during this process - turn it into a more general
>>> code base for creating all sorts of forms, i.e. make the whole thing
>>> more extendable.
>>>
>>> As already mentioned here
>>> <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms/POM>, the
>>> current FormPrinter implementation acutally doesn't just print the form
>>> (as the name suggests), but also does up to five other tasks like
>>> parsing the page that should be edited, handling form input and actually
>>> committing the change to a page that was modified through a form. To me,
>>> this is way too much work for a class that - going by its name - should
>>> only print out a neat form. Redesigning that class is/will be necessary
>>> anyway.
>>>
>>> What do you think about these ideas?
>>>
>>>
>>> Hauke Pribnow
>>>
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