On Dienstag, 22. April 2008, Sergey Chernyshev wrote: > Markus, > > It's great news and I'll definitely be looking into RAP implementation for > integration with other tools we use! > > I have a couple of questions regarding the iCal and SMWRegistry though: > > - Why do you use this strange encoding for the queries and other > things in RSS/iCal URLs? it seems that you replace % with - which makes > it harder to interpret or create. I wonder what's the reasoning behind > this, why can't you just use regular url encoding?
There are multiple reasons. The main reason is that we want to create internal links in MediaWiki to the query special page. Now if we would use % encoding, then MediaWiki would expand that in links to create symbols that are not allowed in links. You can try the query link: [[Special:Ask/%5B%5BCategory%3ATestpage%5D%5D]] (query "[[Category:Testpage]]") Another reason is that we use this as a common encoding in all contexts that occur in SMW. Now in RDF/OWL, URLs do alse occur as XML entities, and % is not allowed in such entities either. > - SMW Registration is done by parsing Special:Version as I understand > - why not to create an RDF export of the statistical data that your > service can consume in addition to the base data in Special:Version? I > understand that old version will not contain it, but there are lots of > other useful data that can be extracted and why not to use best Semantic > format to do that? The project is called "Semantic" MediaWiki, right? ;) We do :-) But that feature is only available since 1.1, hence we check Special:Version to be able to register also older SMWs. But all the additional information (e.g. page count) comes from Special:ExportRDF?stats. It would otherwise be very hard to parse this data from Special:Statistics in all languages. > > I'll definitely try to upgrade TechPresentations, although first I'll need > to make sure that the rest of SMW extensions work fine. OK, great. I think the leap from 1.0 to 1.1 is not so large regarding internal stuff, so I am confident that no issues with extensions arise. TechPresentations of course cannot be registered anyway, since it blocks robots (btw, the SMW Registry robot should understand the ALLOW clause in robots.txt ;-) I will soon (today) create another minor release since we spotted some problems with the 1.1 ICalendar export on various systems, which we fixed right away. Regards, Markus -- Markus Krötzsch Institut AIFB, Universität 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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