Hi, I think making the Collection extension & SMW work together is a very important functionality!
Are there SMW developers that would be interested to have an eye on that? Are there implementors/customers who would be willing to provide funding? regards, Bernhard ----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----- > Hi John, > > It is not a SMW problem as such, rather a PDF Writer problem. > The Collection extension is alright though, doing IT'S job. > The problem is that PDF Writer only understands regular MW markup, > not all that comes with SMW. > And that is a real pity. > I understand, however, that PediaPress considers it is their main > duty to serve Wikipedia, and do it well. > I guess the "responsibles" for PDF Writer and Semantic MediaWiki must > cooperate in some sense to find a solution. > A sort of two-stage transformation should be considered: SMW -> MW -> > PDF (plus other formats like ODF and HTML for that matter). > > Regards, > Even Thorbergsen > > -----Opprinnelig melding----- > Fra: John McClure [mailto:jmccl...@hypergrove.com] > Sendt: 16. november 2011 19:34 > Til: Thorbergsen, Even > Kopi: semediawiki-u...@lists.sourceforge.net > Emne: RE: PDF documents from SMW pages > > Hi Even, > Would you know why the Collection extension does not execute the SMW > {{#ask:}} parser function? Does it not execute all parser functions > on a page? I'm really confused by this one, and I do have tentative > plans to use the Collections extension. Is the Collections extension > poorly designed? > Your note implies it's an SMW problem, not a Collections problem. > Regards, > John > > Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:06:34 +0100 > From: "Thorbergsen, Even" <even.thorberg...@brreg.no> > Subject: [Semediawiki-user] PDF documents from SMW pages > To: "semediawiki-u...@lists.sourceforge.net" > <semediawiki-u...@lists.sourceforge.net> > Message-ID: > <11010cfd2de5314bb7cc2f304b9c35b710c02...@exchange2007.brreg.no> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi all, > > Does anyone know if it is or soon will be possible to generate PDF > documents directly from a page or a set of pages containing SMW-type > queries? > > I have for a while used the Collection extension in combination with > the PDF Writer extension for creating wiki-based PDF documents. > However, with an increasing amount of content being generated by SMW > queries, these extensions tends to be less valuable. > > Regards, > Even Thorbergsen > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure > contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, > security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this > data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d > _______________________________________________ > Semediawiki-user mailing list > semediawiki-u...@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
