Help:ASK

ASK is Centiare's parser function free-form query tool that can be used in conjunction with or as an alternative to the Search Triple query-by-form tool.

Example

Suppose you were interested in displaying all of the Centiare articles where a Latitude attribute between 39 degrees and 40 degrees North has been tagged. The following example ASK query...

<ask>
[[City:=*]]
[[State Code:=*|State]]
[[Zip:=*]]
[[Latitude:=>39.0]][[Latitude:=<40.0]][[Latitude:=*|Latitude]]
</ask>

...instantaneously produces this report:

<ask> * State * >39.0Property "Latitude" (as page type) with input value ">39.0" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.<40.0Property "Latitude" (as page type) with input value "" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.Latitude </ask>

Of course, this is just an example, and ASK queries may be written to be as inclusive or restrictive of qualifying attributes as the author wishes.