Re: XCond: towards an XML version of conditional inclusion

John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Tue, 02 Jun 1998 16:43:08 -0400


Tim Bray wrote:

> UNLESS could be replaced by a negation attribute or simply dropped
> and leave that up to the expression. Not sure if that's an improvement
> or not.

It's nice to be able to say what a string shouldn't be, when there's
no evaluator available: i.e. include *unless* these two strings
match. Making it a different attribute is basically just factoring
the XCond:type attribute; Occam says, make it a single attribute.

> But I'm pretty sure it be nice to have a fall-through
> default, i.e.
>
> <SELECT XCond:value="xx">
> <WHEN>...</WHEN>
> <WHEN>...</WHEN>
> <WHEN>...</WHEN>
> <OTHERWISE> if none of them works </OTHERWISE>
> </SELECT>

A good idea. Next draft (like, tomorrow).

> Also, I'd put the examples *first*, the formalism later -Tim

I'll make a hyperlink at the top.

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