https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15541


Markus Krötzsch <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |ASSIGNED
            Summary|implement special           |special [[Property::Has
                   |[[Property::Has format]] to |format]] for controlling
                   |give us control of value    |default value display
                   |appearance                  |




--- Comment #2 from Markus Krötzsch <[email protected]>  2009-08-02 
14:37:15 UTC ---
I can see that this could be a useful feature, but the above description
already would make it very complex. In the end, you essentially want templates
to be used for formatting the output (essentially a wiki-ized "formatting
string"). I fear that this could lead to rather bad performance since you could
easily have hundreds of template calls for some long list of query results.
Also, the problem is what to pass to the template. As for service links, one
might need many different basic forms in order to ensure that a template can
achieve the desired formatting. Again this is not going to speed up things.

An alternative that I see is to use the "output formats" that SMW already has
for #ask printouts of various types, extending them for individual datatypes
and using such a default format for all displays. Of course, this would be less
powerful, but it might be less complex and easier to compute with. Maybe this
was even in the spirit of your initial request.


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