On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Dmitriy Sintsov <questpc(a)rambler.ru> 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.