Hi,
I've been thinking recently about components of Semantic Forms that really
belong in Semantic MediaWiki, because they're not related to forms. Special
pages like 'Templates' or 'CreateProperty' are obvious candidates, though
you could make a case for them staying because (a) SF takes a more
template-centric approach, and (b) helper forms are forms in their own
right. But the features of SF for which I don't think any strong case could
be made for keeping them there are the #arraymap and #arraymaptemplate
parser functions, which are used to to map a semantic property or other
action, like a widget call, onto each value of a list. I think it makes
sense to have these somewhere within the SMW system, since SMW takes a
text-as-data approach that isn't shared by most other MediaWiki usages, but
there's nothing form-specific about these functions. In fact, I believe
that in a few cases people have installed Semantic Forms just to have access
to these functions. So, any thoughts on moving them directly into SMW?
I know the general effort is to make SMW as small and lightweight as
possible, but this functionality doesn't take up that much code, and as
someone once said, one should "keep things as simple as possible, but no
simpler".
-Yaron
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