Hi,
About six months ago, I sent an email to this list, asking about changing
some of the SMW code to allow other extensions, specifically Semantic
Internal Objects, to modify the RDF. You can see the discussion here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg01730.html
Basically, it turned into a discussion about the possible ways of changing
SMW's RDF-export code, and about the design and usefulness of SIO. Well, SMW
1.5 has now been released, and the RDF code wasn't substantially modified
(not that I think there's anything wrong with the current basic setup), and
it looks like there's some sort of consensus now that SIO works fine for
what it's intended to do. So, given that, I'd like to re-ask this question -
the original text of the email is included below.
Thanks,
Yaron
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I want the new extension Semantic Internal Objects to be able to add data
about internal objects to the RDF export. Normally this wouldn't seem too
hard: the function that prints RDF data about a specific wiki page is
OWLExport::printObject(), in the file SMW_SpecialOWLExport.php (it's a
little odd that the class is contained directly in the file for a special
page, but that's another story). Anyway, it seems like the solution would be
to just add a call to end of that function that looks something like:
wfRunHooks('smwPrintObjectRDF', array($this));
That way, Semantic Internal Objects could register a function with the
'smwPrintObjectRDF' hook, so that every time the RDF for a specific page was
created, SIO could add on the RDF for all the internal objects in that page.
Unfortunately, the problem is that nearly all of the variables and methods
in the OWLExport class are either protected or private; that means there's
no way for outside code to add to the RDF. This looks to me like
overly-protective code; could one or more of the functions be made public
instead? Or maybe the simplest solution is to create a new public function,
maybe called addToRDF(), that just adds a passed-in string to the RDF being
generated.
Any thoughts on this?
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