New subject: [Semantic Forms] Namespaces not persisted/rendered in page?

20 Nov 2015

Hi everyone,

Another question :)

If we take the book/author example as a reference, I have created a
namespace "Person" and a namespace "Book" so that when I have a book
"Billy
Bob" that page is not confused with the page for the author "Billy Bob".
In edit mode it works well and I have "|values from namespace=Person",
"|query string=namespace=Person" and "|query string=namespace=Book" in
the
right places.  The autocomplete works and all.

However... when the page is saved the namespace is dropped and the author
is saved as "Billy Bob"... instead of "Person:Billy Bob".  That means
that
the links for existing and non-existing authors point to the wrong
namespace.

I did add
    $smwgNamespacesWithSemanticLinks[NS_PERSON] = true;
    $smwgNamespacesWithSemanticLinks[NS_BOOK] = true;
...but that did not seem to make a difference.

I played with it a bit and the issue seems a bit more complex than just
adding "Person:" in front of the template call.  When I did that I got
different (and incorrect) behavior for exiting and non-existing pages.

Ideally I would like to have it rendered as [Person:Billy Bob|Billy Bob] so
that the screen is clean and the link correct.

Thoughts?

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BTW, a couple of updates.

On the validation of large lists I experimented a bit and I'm defining the
valid values in the template itself.  So far my largest lists have 160 and
240 values.  The 160 is hierarchically defined as "type/subtype" and the
240 is a list of countries. So they both work very well with autocomplete
when I use "input type=combobox|existing values only".

On the validation I'll be doing the checks using javascript.  I'll try to
model it after the regexp part of the SematicFormsInput extension.  Once it
is working, if there is interest, I'll submit it for consideration as an
extension enhancement.  I have done quite a bit of work in php and js, but
I'm totally new to jquery.

Thanks!!