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== Implementation ==

While the current implementation works and can be used to test and refine the concept of ''Semantic MediaWiki with Property Clustering'', it is not very efficient and sometimes cumbersome. The majority of the templates could and should be replaced by equivalent parser functions in a future release.

Using SMWpc on small and medium size wikis should be possible with the current implementation.

Properties are always assigned by using a template. This may look "overdesigned" in some simple cases. But it proves to be very useful because it allows to have an abstraction layer between SMW and the user interface for property assignment. The implementation of polymorph properties and checks against the class model rely on this design principle.

== General Purpose Templates ==
For syntactic reasons it is sometimes necessary to escape the pipe character within templates. The usual way to do this is by using a template which expands to a pipe character. SMWpc for this reason uses the following templates:
* [[Template:!]]
* [[Template:(!]]
* [[Template:!)]]


<p align=right>[[SMWpc Documentation API Object]]</p>
{{:SMWpc Documentation API Object}}

<p align=right>[[SMWpc Documentation API Class]]</p>
{{:SMWpc Documentation API Class}}

<p align=right>[[SMWpc Documentation API Category]]</p>
{{:SMWpc Documentation API Category}}

<p align=right>[[SMWpc Documentation API Instances]]</p>
{{:SMWpc Documentation API Instances}}

<p align=right>[[SMWpc Documentation API Property]]</p>
{{:SMWpc Documentation API Property}}

<p align=right>[[SMWpc Documentation API Type]]</p>
{{:SMWpc Documentation API Type}}

<p align=right>[[SMWpc Documentation API Model]]</p>
{{:SMWpc Documentation API Model}}

<p align=right>[[SMWpc Documentation API ObjectForm]]</p>
{{:SMWpc Documentation API ObjectForm}}


== SMW and SMWpc: List of built-in Properties, Types and Templates ==
The following table lists all wiki pages which together make up the core system of [[SMWpc]]. To download them, mark the contents of all columns and copy/paste the name list to [[Special:Export]]. Choose 'save as file' and import the resulting XML file to your wiki. '''Make sure''' that you have a ''working installation of Semantic MediaWiki before doing so''. Otherwise you will end up in namespace problems.

<small>
{|class=wikitable
!SMW Types
!SMW Properties
!SMW Categories
!SMWpc Templates
!SMWpc Properties
!SMWpc Documentation
|----
|
{{#dpl:namespace=Type|nottitlematch=.%|uses=Template:.type built-in|format=,:[[%PAGE%]],\n}}


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{{#dpl:namespace=Property|nottitlematch=.%|uses=Template:.prop built-in|format=,:[[%PAGE%]],\n}}


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:[[:Category:Class|Category:Class]]


|
:[[Template:!]] 
:[[Template:!)]] 
:[[Template:(!]] 
:[[Template:+]] 
:[[Template:-]]
{{#dpl:namespace=Template|titlematch=.%|format=,:[[%PAGE%]],\n}}


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{{#dpl:namespace=Property|titlematch=.%|format=,:[[%PAGE%]],\n}}


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{{#dpl:titlematch=Semantic MediaWiki with Property Clusters%|skipthispage=no|format=,:[[%PAGE%]],\n}}
{{#dpl:titlematch=SMWpc%|format=,:[[%PAGE%]],\n}}


|----
|}
</small>

== SMWpc Demo Example - Classes, Properties, Templates, Categories, Articles ==
The following table lists all wiki pages which belong to the demo example which is provided together with [[SMWpc]]. To download them, mark the contents of all columns and copy/paste the name list to [[Special:Export]]. Choose 'save as file' and import the resulting XML file to your wiki. '''Make sure''' that you have a ''working installation of Semantic MediaWiki before doing so''. Otherwise you will end up in namespace problems.

<small>
{|class=wikitable
!Categories
!Classes
!Properties
!Templates
!Forms
!Images
!Articles
|----
|
{{#dpl:namespace=|titlematch=Class %|replaceintitle=/^Class /,|format=,:[[:Category:%TITLE%|Category:%TITLE%]],\n}}


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{{#dpl:namespace=|titlematch=Class %|format=,:[[%PAGE%]],\n}}


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{{#dpl:namespace=Property|nottitlematch=.%|notuses=Template:.prop built-in|format=,:[[%PAGE%]],\n}}


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{{#dpl:namespace=Template|nottitlematch=.form %|uses=Template:.obj set}}


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{{#dpl:namespace=Form}}


|
:[[:Image:Student.gif]]
:[[:Image:Person.png]]
:[[:Image:SMWpc MetaModel.png]]
:[[:Image:SMWpc Focus.png]]
:[[:Image:Musical notes.png]]
:[[:Image:Keyboard.png]]


|
{{#ask:sep=<br>|[[.obj is a::+]]}}


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|}
</small>

=== Extensions used ===
* [[mw:Extension:Semantic MediaWiki]] -- see also http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki
* [[mw:Extension:DynamicPageList]]
** Take '''DynamicPageList''', '''Wgraph''', '''Call''' and '''Inputbox''' from the [http://semeb.com/dpldemo/download Zip archive]!
* [[mw:Extension:VariablesExtension]]
* [[mw:Extension:String]]
* [[mw:Extension:ParserFunctions]]
* [[mw:Extension:SimpleForms]]