Markus Krötzsch wrote:
> Ok, fair point. The explanation should then include that SMW is conceived as
> a data management extension, but tries to keep small on data
> formatting/visualisation. So the real reason is the overall project goal.
Fair enough. That said, it's a data management extension to an application
that is centered on human readability, which means that data
formatting/visualization carries a higher priority than it would for a strictly
data management application. That said:
> But with the new functions in place, it is easy to make many #subobject-like
> parser functions with all kinds of extra features. The file implementing
> #subobject is hardly a 100 lines and most of it could be re-used for building
> modified versions of it.
This is a very true point. Then again, creating a spinoff of #subobject
strictly to add an optional visualization feature to it feels a little awkward.
Still, it would be a good learning experience.
Could we at least get a positional parameter for #subobject that simply
replaces the data? No "inline template parameters" or anything fancy; just a
straight "display this wiki code instead of what you'd normally show":
{{#subobject name
| personal=Jonathan
| nickname=Jon
| family=Lang
| title=Mr.
| Jon Lang
}}
It's not as versatile as I'd like; but at least it lets the page author
seamlessly integrate the machine-readable data into the human-readable text of
the page without having to create a (single-use) template page to format it the
way he wants.
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