Hi Michael,
I can think of a hack that might accomplish that: transclude the first page
in the second page, while keeping the first page's contents hidden. So
adding the following to page "object-B" might work:
<span style="display:none">{{:object-A}}</span>
-Yaron
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Michael Rau
<michi....@gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
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> wrote:
> Hello SMW people,
>
> my objective is to implement inheritance of properties. Example:
>
> page "object-A" has two properties
> * prop1::test1
> * prop2::test2
>
> Now, object-B inherits from object-A with the following properties:
> * is::object-A (specifies inheritance!)
> * prop1::test3
> * prop3::test4
>
> The final properties (also displayed in the factbox) are expected to be:
> * is::object-A (specifies inheritance!)
> * prop1::test3 (object-B overwrites object-A)
> * prop2::test2 (inherited from object-A and not overwritten)
> * prop3::test4 (new property specific to object-B)
>
> My approach is $wgHooks['smwShowFactbox'] defining a parser hook to
> 1) extract inheritance from property "is"
> 2) if inheritance is defined, then
> 2.1) read all properties from parent
> 2.2) read all properties from child
> 2.3) append all properties from parent not defined in child
>
> The thing is, I have no glue about how to i) extract properties from a
> page (child and parent) and ii) append new properties. It
> should be possible as demonstrated in SMW_Factbox::getFactboxTex. Possible
> approach to append new properties might be to add a silent
> property definition i.e. [[:prop2::test2]] to the hooks &$text reference.
> I could also use SMWWriter but I could not get it to work.
>
> Any ideas if there is a straight-forward solution and how to read
> properties from parent and child?
>
> Michael.
>
>
>
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