Zeev:

First, when you use "Square" in your examples, I'm pretty sure you actually
mean "Area". Second - I think the idea of custom code for handling
functions/rules in SMW is a non-starter - too difficult to implement for too
little value. The Semantic Rules extension mentioned earlier might be able
to handle this - I haven't seen it in action, but given its name it seems
promising.

However, it seems to me that the easiest way to implement this would be,
instead of storing the formula for the area, to store the sets of allowed
values directly. This is n-ary data, so you would have two options - either
use multi-value properties, so you could have something like:

[[Has allowed value set::1;4;2]]
[[Has allowed value set::2;5;5]]
...etc.

...or use the Semantic Internal Objects extension, so you could have
something like:

{{#set_internal:Is value set for|Has height=1|Has length=4|Has area=2}}
{{#set_internal:Is value set for|Has height=2|Has length=5|Has area=5}}
...etc.

The querying would be different depending on which option you went with, but
in either case it wouldn't be that hard.

I don't know whether you can actually write out all the possibilities by
hand - it depends on your data needs. If you have hundreds or more of such
allowed-value sets, it may make sense to create a custom extension for your
wiki that would simply generate the text of these declarations, based on a
formula and a set of inputs.

-Yaron


On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Hauke Pribnow <hauke.prib...@gmx.net>wrote:

> Zeev,
>
> do you know about the ParserFunctions extension? If not, have a look at it:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions
>
> You should already be able to implement something like this by using
> this extension and some templates.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Hauke
>
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