On 01/11/11 14:11, Jonathan Lang wrote:
> Markus Krötzsch wrote:
>
>> Ok, fair point. The explanation should then include that SMW is conceived as
>> a data management extension, but tries to keep small on data
>> formatting/visualisation. So the real reason is the overall project goal.
>
> Fair enough. That said, it's a data management extension to an application
> that is centered on human readability, which means that data
> formatting/visualization carries a higher priority than it would for a
> strictly data management application. That said:
>
>> But with the new functions in place, it is easy to make many #subobject-like
>> parser functions with all kinds of extra features. The file implementing
>> #subobject is hardly a 100 lines and most of it could be re-used for
>> building modified versions of it.
>
> This is a very true point. Then again, creating a spinoff of #subobject
> strictly to add an optional visualization feature to it feels a little
> awkward. Still, it would be a good learning experience.
It does not have to be a spinoff. I am happy to include contributed code
into SMW as long as there are some maintainers for it.
>
> Could we at least get a positional parameter for #subobject that simply
> replaces the data? No "inline template parameters" or anything fancy; just a
> straight "display this wiki code instead of what you'd normally show":
>
> {{#subobject name
> | personal=Jonathan
> | nickname=Jon
> | family=Lang
> | title=Mr.
> | Jon Lang
> }}
>
> It's not as versatile as I'd like; but at least it lets the page author
> seamlessly integrate the machine-readable data into the human-readable text
> of the page without having to create a (single-use) template page to format
> it the way he wants.
I understand, but #subobject calls do not return anything anyway. So you
can simply write
Jon Lang{{#subobject name|personal=Jonathan|nickname=Jon|family=Lang}}
if you like. I don't see a real advantage of piping this string through
the parser function.
Markus
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