Of course, I am THRILLED that this is coming down the pipe.
Sergey, If you're planning to do something crazy, I suggest checking
out DPL and <shamelessplug>RegExParserFunctions</shamelessplug>.
Combining {{#ask}} with {{#dpl}} and {{#regex}} can produce some very
neat combinations. Also, I'm interested to see what you come up with
in the way of {{#ask}} queries.
-- Jim
On Nov 27, 2007 5:04 PM, Sergey Chernyshev
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Perfect - it works great for what I was planning to use it for! Now almost
> no barriers are there ;)
>
> Sergey
>
>
>
>
> On Nov 27, 2007 4:43 PM, Markus Krötzsch < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Dienstag, 27. November 2007, Sergey Chernyshev wrote:
> > > WOW! Markus, this is great present for being back from vacation! ;) I'll
> > > test it on my instances as soon as I'll get some time with computer
> > > tomorrow.
> >
> > Great, hope you like it. Surprisingly, most of the work had to go into
> > modifying Special:Ask to allow linking to queries using internal links,
> and
> > into supporting the new separation of printout requests and queries (which
> > also makes way for some more "presents"). I had to adopt the Special:ask
> > interface a little to account for this. I will drop another short note
> about
> > recent changes and then be offline for a few days. I guess RC3 would be in
> > order after this.
> >
> > Markus
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Sergey
> > >
> > > On Nov 23, 2007 4:01 PM, Markus Krötzsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > > > And another note: {{#ask}} is in SVN (in a first version).
> > > >
> > > > Working example query:
> > > >
> > > > {{#ask: [[Category:Country]] [[borders::Nigeria]] |
> > > > ?population|
> > > > ?area#km² = ''Size''|
> > > > format=list|
> > > > limit = 3|
> > > > link=all|
> > > > intro=<b>Test</b>_|
> > > > }}
> > > >
> > > > Moreover, it is now of course possible to use templates and their
> params
> > > > rather freely in {{#ask}}. Actually even some very unreasonable things
> > > > work,
> > > > but many cool things should also be possible. One real issue might be
> > > > that uninitiated users might nest {{#ask}} in order to emulate
> > > > <q>-subqueries, even though the latter are much more efficient and
> > > > complete. Of course nesting sometimes is desirable:
> > > >
> > > > {{#ask:
> > > > [[Category:Country]]
> > > > [[population::>{{#ask:headers=hide|?Population|[[Uganda]]}} ]] |
> > > > sort=population|
> > > > ?population
> > > > }}
> > > >
> > > > This indeed works now.
> > > >
> > > > Here is what should hopefully work for #ask on SVN:
> > > >
> > > > * all printout formats other than "debug" (which still gives some
> HTML),
> > > > * all known parameters (though some now are more flexible since you
> can
> > > > use
> > > > wiki-markup as values),
> > > > * printout requests with the syntax "? property#unit = label",
> > > > * basic queries, nested queries, value ranges, wildcards, and yet
> > > > * <ask> should work as it did before (I hope).
> > > >
> > > > Here is what certainly does not work:
> > > >
> > > > * links to further results don't work in wikitext (we need another
> > > > URL-scheme
> > > > for that, but "external" links may be my first fix),
> > > > * printouts of Categories do not work via "? Category" yet,
> > > > * disjunctions in queries obviously do not work yet, since "|" is
> already
> > > > taken in templates (Sergey suggested a solution that would require
> > > > queries to
> > > > be the last #ask-parameter, but we may even get around this by
> providing
> > > > an
> > > > alternative syntax for "||"),
> > > > * a query with limit 0 might show a broken further results link,
> > > > * templated and embedded printers may pull annotations into the
> article
> > > > where
> > > > the query is -- this needs some advanced fix as there is currently no
> way
> > > > for
> > > > us to distinguish #ask-printed results from the text someone entered
> > > > directly.
> > > >
> > > > I guess there are more things, but at least most of the above should
> be
> > > > fixed
> > > > soon. Feel free to try out the devel version (otherwise it's pretty
> much
> > > > RC2,
> > > > no updates needed) and let me know what breaks/works/is still missing.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >
> > > > Markus
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Markus Krötzsch
> > > > Institut AIFB, Universät Karlsruhe (TH), 76128 Karlsruhe
> > > > phone +49 (0)721 608 7362 fax +49 (0)721 608 5998
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] www http://korrekt.org
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> >
> > Markus Krötzsch
> > Institut AIFB, Universät Karlsruhe (TH), 76128 Karlsruhe
> > phone +49 (0)721 608 7362 fax +49 (0)721 608 5998
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] www http://korrekt.org
> >
>
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