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- From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- To: XML Dev <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: 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.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
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