> I expect that this works now with #ask, *BUT* there already is a format for
> what you want to do. It is called "embedded" and it can be customised with
> the following parameters:
> * embedformat = {h1, h2, h3, ol, ul} (how to format the result list)
> * embedonly = true (whether to leave away the headlines)
It's great, but I use a div tag with special css style to separate the
rows.., so {{ {{{1}}} }} is probably better to me, or maybe
embedformat can be expanded to custom set of tags? The only concern
is, how much the template expansion is inefficient comparing to
format="embedded"...
> This must, however, be combined with <noinclude> so as not to import semantic
> data or category data to the page that asks the query (especially when using
> #ask).
Such as with templates. I know that, but thank's for reminding..
> Embed also works for annotation-objects, e.g. to print the
> query "[[some page]] [[links to::*]]" -- then all the values of "links to"
> will be embedded. Other than the "first column", print requests
> for "embedded" are usually ignored. Also, there are known ways of cyclic
> embedding that may lead to infinite inclusion loops (though in practice these
> tend to be as finite as available memory).
I see..
> Yes, I already use this for my (semi-)blog that is based on SMW :-) (not that
> I am very active as a blogger, but anyway here is the example page, mostly
> generated by a query: http://korrekt.org/index.php/Blog).
Great!
May I suggest another kind of ask format? Sometimes it's desirable to
get only a simple count of rows instead of the query result rows. So,
if there's a 5 rows in the query result, ask format="count" would
return a number 5. It may be useful to statistics, in further
computations in templates and so on...
I really think that SMW requires a better documentation on new
formats of queries, #ask and subqueries. Because the only
documentation I've used is outdated:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Substitution
e.g. no new features, no subqueries here and so on..
In the future, after releasing final version, I would suggest
reporting a story about SMW to slashdot, to get some more publicity..
Dmitriy
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