On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Dmitriy Sintsov <[email protected]> wrote: > There were the comparsions how many bytes the semantic data definition > would take in RDFa or microdata, but it certainly takes even much less > bytes to define the properties in SMW. If the SMW itself is not > suitable, why not to borrow the compact [[::]] property definition > syntax, at least? Then it will be possible to generate separate output > in any desirable format. Why the long templates with XML tags are > better?
What would be sample SMW markup for the image example from my first post here? I can see two major problems with using SMW syntax for input: 1) Implementing microdata-output-as-microdata is trivial, and already implemented in core. SMW syntax would still need to be implemented in core, and this would probably be nontrivial. 2) We typically set a much higher bar for new wikisyntax than for new whitelisted HTML attributes. By our regular standards, I don't see how it would be justifiable to introduce new syntax for the sake of probably a tiny number of templates. Maybe your syntax would be better here, but I don't really see the benefits except to those who are already using SMW. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
