Semantic MediaWiki/markup
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property embedding
SMW introduces a new syntactical structure of the form [[property name::property value]]
, which may optionally be written with a display parameter: [[property name::property value|display text]]
. Both of these formats cause the current page to be assigned the value <property name> with the value <property value>. The same value can be assigned to several properties with this syntax: [[property1 name::property2 name::value for both]]
.
To set a property without displaying anything, there are two alternative forms:
[[property name::property value| ]]
- In this form, the space between the "|" and "]]" is required)
{{#set:property name=property value}}
- This form allows brackets ("[" and "]") to be used in the property value; the other form does not.
parser functions
SMW also uses a few standard-form parser functions:
- #ask
- #declare
- #info
- #set
- #set_recurring_event
- #show
See Displaying_information#Display_format for at least some information about formatting values.
notes
case-sensitivity
- For MediaWiki deployments where initial characters in article titles are not automatically capitalized (the default is to capitalize them):
- In #ask queries, the word "Category" is case-sensitive;
[[category:...]]
will not work.
- In #ask queries, the word "Category" is case-sensitive;
- Special properties are also case-sensitive: e.g.
[[Has type:string]]
correctly references the special "Has type" property, but[[has type::string]]
refers only to a non-special "has type" property.