On Donnerstag, 6. August 2009, jeroen De Dauw wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I have a parser function named display_points. It accepts a parameter
> 'points', like this:
>
> #display_points:points=55.7557860, 37.6176330; 1,1; 12,34
>
> Obviously, ';' is the separator between coordinate pairs.
>
> Now I want to allow people to specify 2 additional parameter for each
> coordinate pair: title and label. I'm not sure what's the best syntax for
> this. This is what I currently have in mind, but it's not ideal, since this
> does not allow ';' or '-' in the title and label:
>
> #display_points:points=55.7557860, 37.6176330-title-label; 1,1-title; 12,34
>
>
> Does anybody have a suggestion on how to do this better?
My first suggestion would be to use MediaWiki symbols for separating multiple
inputs, e.g.
{{#display_points:points=55.7557860; 37.6176330 | 1; 1 | 12; 34 }}
This lets you use ";" as a separator between components of a pair, which will
be helpful for internationalization (Germans have an odd convention of using
"," instead of "." as a decimal separator, so your current notation looked
rather confusing to Germans).
As a next step, you could allow further named parameters after a coordinate
pair to specify more information, e.g.
{{#display_points:points=55.7557860; 37.6176330 | title=foo | 1; 1 | label=bar
| 12; 34}}
The "parameter=value" style is something users are familiar with.
-- Markus
>
>
> Cheers,
> Jeroen De Dauw
>
>
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Markus Krötzsch
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