Thank you, Jim. That's what I expected. I'm just hoping for 1.0 final is
close enough.
Sergey
On Nov 12, 2007 4:31 PM, Jim Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Although I am in favor of {{#ask:}} at the earliest possible
> conveneince, after a cursory look through the code, I'm fairly certain
> this extension will fail to operate as expected.
>
> The first reason is that <ask>, which is an extension tag, will always
> return fully qualified HTML. The output of a parser function is
> expected to be wikitext, which will be further processed. The result
> is that if the output of the {{#ask:}} call contains any links,
> they'll be HTML links (like <a href="something">something</a>), not
> wiki text (like [[something]]). When the Parser reads these HTML tags
> during subsequent processing, it'll convert the '<' and '>' symbols to
> their entity equivalents '<' and '>' so in the browser you
> actually see '<a href="...">whatever</a>', not a nice link.
>
> The second reason is that one of the huge benefits of having an
> {{#ask:}} parser function is nesting. The idea that you could
> {{#ask:something={{#ask:something else}}}}. I'm not sure if SMW
> supports nested <ask> tags, but if not, this would also be a failure
> mode of the aforementioned extension.
>
> Again, I would like nothing more from SMW than an {{#ask:}} template -
> which would be a __HUGE__ improvement for advanced use cases, but I
> don't think that this extension is the answer everyone hopes it is.
>
> -- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw)
>
> On Nov 12, 2007 10:38 AM, Sergey Chernyshev
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Yaron noticed that there is new inline query extension posted on
> > MediaWiki.org:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SMW_ParserFunctionAsk
> >
> > I'm definitely going to install it and see if it'll work for my needs,
> but
> > what bothers me is the size of it - it seems to be too simple ;)
> >
> > I also noticed that it's not going to support '=' or '|' in the queries,
> but
> > it's easy to implement it using the code I sent in before.
> >
> > Markus, could you please look at it and let us know if you anticipate
> any
> > problems with this code?
> >
> > Sergey
> >
> >
> > --
> > Sergey Chernyshev
> > http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/
>
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