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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@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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