DanTMan wrote: > Has anyone attempted to get SMW to support special types of number > notation, basically where multiple numbers of different units are > written out. > > Basically such as [2ft 5in] or the classic format [2'5"]
Nobody as far as I know. You could write a custom datavalue that parses it, similar to SMW_DV_GeoCoords.php. Trying to add it into SMW_DV_Linear.php to give you unit conversion would be challenging, as SMWLinearValue just relies on SMWNumberValue's parsing. Maybe you'd parse once to get (value=2, unit="ft 5 in"), then notice that convertToMainUnit() fails, so parse again to see if there's a second value. It would be a lot easier to support multiple units only in display, something like [[display units::"%dft %.2fin", meters, km]] and you'd beef up SMWLinearValue->makeConversionValues() to parse this sprintf-like format. FWIW the GNU units program http://www.gnu.org/software/units/ , the most impressive conversion program I've found, doesn't attempt multiple units, nor does Java JSR-275 (units). Come on United States, Liberia, and Myanmar, get with metrication ;-) -- =S Page ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
