On 02/16/11 15:29, Markus Krötzsch wrote:
> On 16/02/2011 10:18, graham wrote:
> * SMW supports text blobs as a possible type of input data (Type:Text
> and Type:Code, depending on the desired formatting).
> * In order for SMW to find this data on a wiki page, the text blobs need
> to be somewhat restricted in the MediaWiki markup that they can use.
> There are particular problems if your text contains characters that
> MediaWiki uses, e.g. { or |. Some other problems may occur for data that
> MediaWiki escapes automatically, e.g. < and &. These are probably issues
> in any case, whatever solution you go for.
> * One page can have one or more blobs of data associated (each blob is a
> property value), and they can be of different kind (i.e. be assigned to
> different properties, e.g. if there are distinct types of configurations
> to store for one page).
> * Stored data can be retrieved in various ways and formats, e.g. based
> on membership of a page in one or more categories. It should not be hard
> to find a format that is easy to parse in an external tool to retrieve
> the individual text blobs (e.g. JSON is easy to parse in JavaScript, and
> CSV is not hard to parse with simple text manipulation).
>
> I think this is not so far from what you need.
Thanks Markus for taking so much time over this. That's very helpful,
and has convinced me to try SMW (which I wasn't seriously considering
before). I'll have a look and come back to one or other list if I get stuck.
Thanks again
Graham
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