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