I guess you get it right. We have to ignore text that's white-space
only, and wether it's CDATA or not we will do the same.


Saturday, December 12, 2015, 7:45:17 AM, Pradeep Murugesan wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
>
> So we can ignore a CDATA text of that is mere formatting right ? 
>
> Now it burns down to identify whether the text inside CDATA is a formatted 
> one or not.
>
> Am I right or did you mean the other way ?
>
> Pradeep.
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Daniel Dekany <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 12:44 AM
> To: Pradeep Murugesan
> Subject: Re: Adding a new BuiltIn - previousSibling
>
> Thursday, December 10, 2015, 9:28:31 AM, Pradeep Murugesan wrote:
>
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>>   Done the changes
>> https://github.com/pradeepmurugesan/incubator-freemarker/commit/296a7a85a1f1683a3d20be0220881333cbdc4216
>> (ignore build.xml , have reverted it)
>>
>> So previously we discussed to skip the following
>>
>> 1. Empty spaces
>> 2. Comments
>> 3. PIs
>> 4. CDATA
>
> There's some kind of misunderstand here as CDATA shouldn't be there
> like that. But see later.
>
>> Now 2 & 3s are not included in dom at all.
>
> Depends on how the TemplateModel was created. There are some
> convenience methods included that remove commends and PI-s from the
> DOM itself before wrapping, but some applications will just give a DOM
> to wrap.
>
>> even the ?previousSibling skips those elements.
>>
>> Now the challenge comes in skipping the CDATA. I tried to use the
>> nodeType check i.e ( if node.getNodeType == Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE)
>> but this is not working since CDATA node is considered as text node
>> and the node type is returned as TEXT. Also the getNodeTextContent
>> is returning the text inside the CDATA  tag  (Not the string CDATA
>> itself) so I am not sure how we will be picking which is a
>> characterData and which is a non empty text.
>
> CDATA is nothing just syntax for avoiding escaping special characters.
> So of course we don't want to ignore them in general. Just think about
> it, in <a/><![CDATA[foo bar]]><b/>, it's not like "foo bar" there can
> be ignored without losing useful information (as opposed to losing
> text that's just formatting). In fact, something being inside CDATA is
> a proof that it's not just formatting, even if it's white-space. But
> as we can't (reliably) tell if a piece of text is coming from CDATA or
> not, we should ignore that difference even where you can tell it.
>
> --
> Thanks,
>  Daniel Dekany
>
>> Eg:
>> <person>
>>     <profession>Software Engineer</profession>
>>     <![CDATA[ <a>test<a> ]]>
>>     <phone>12345678</phone>
>> </person>
>>
>> doing a doc.person.phone.@@previous returns the node type as text with value 
>> as <a>test<a>;
>>
>> I am not sure which is the criteria to check the CDATA node. Am i missing 
>> something here ?
>>
>> Pradeep.
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Daniel Dekany <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 5:07 AM
>> To: Pradeep Murugesan
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Adding a new BuiltIn - previousSibling
>>
>> Wednesday, December 9, 2015, 10:11:04 AM, Pradeep Murugesan wrote:
>>
>>> Daniel,
>>>
>>>  you got a chance to review this ?
>>>
>>> Pradeep.
>>>
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: Pradeep Murugesan <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Monday, December 7, 2015 10:15 AM
>>> To: Daniel Dekany
>>> Cc: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: Adding a new BuiltIn - previousSibling
>>>
>>> Hi daniel,
>>>
>>>  I have a question on the @@previous and @@next being null. So we
>>> will return the previous significant node if exists but will return
>>> an empty set of nodes if its null. which means we will return a
>>> NodeListModel with an empty ArrayList.
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>>  In that case shouldn't we be wrapping the non null node too in
>>> NodeListModel instead of NodeModel ?
>>>
>>>  Right now the code might look like this
>>>
>>>         if(previousSibling == null) {
>>>                 return new NodeListModel(EMPTY_ARRAYLIST, null);
>>>         } else {
>>>                 return wrap(previousSibling);
>>>         }
>>
>> Looks OK to me.
>>
>>> we need to return one dataType right ? it should be like
>>>
>>>         if(previousSibling == null) {
>>>                 return new NodeListModel(EMPTY_ARRAYLIST, null);
>>>         } else {
>>>                 return NodeListModel(previousSibling);
>>>         }
>>>
>>> Let me know your inputs.
>>
>> NodeModel-s (like ElementModel) implement TemplateSequenceModel, just
>> like NodeListModel does, so as far as the template is concerned, they
>> are both list-like. The main difference is that a NodeModel can only
>> represent a node sequence of size 1, while NodeListModel can represent
>> a node sequence of arbitrary size. When your node sequence happens to
>> be of size 1, you should always use NodeModel instead of
>> NodeListModel, because only NodeModel-s implement TemplateScalarModel
>> and so can be treated as a single strings in the template.
>>
>> I have to add though that the DOM wrapper is a part of the code that
>> I'm not familiar with, and that wasn't cleaned up by me either. So
>> watch out.
>>
>>> Pradeep
>>>
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: Daniel Dekany <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Monday, December 7, 2015 4:05 AM
>>> To: Pradeep Murugesan
>>> Cc: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: Adding a new BuiltIn - previousSibling
>>>
>>> Sunday, December 6, 2015, 4:28:11 PM, Pradeep Murugesan wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>>
>>>>        sorry for this huge gap.. Actually got caught up in Chennai
>>>> floods ( Chennai, India). Just back to home town and safe.
>>>>
>>>> I have done the unit tests and the renaming of the files you
>>>> suggested previously. Please review and let me know the changes.
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/pradeepmurugesan/incubator-freemarker/commit/1db672a2ba3db1f08c594df663b4dd7e68d36d4a
>>>
>>> One random detail that I have spotted is:
>>> node.getTextContent().trim().isEmpty(). It's not very efficient if you
>>> think about it. Something like StringUtil.isTrimmableToEmpty would be
>>> better, only with String argument of course.
>>>
>>>> I need to cover a case for which I need your inputs.
>>>>
>>>> Lets say we are in the last sibling and trying to access the next,
>>>> same applies for previous as well what should we return ?  null ? Kindly 
>>>> let me know your thoughts.
>>>
>>> "?previous" and "?next" should just return null. But "@@previous" and
>>> "@@next" should behave like the other "@@" keys, that is, with XPath
>>> logic, which says that the result is an empty set of nodes. Again
>>> similarly to other "@@" keys and XPath expression, they should work
>>> correctly on node sets that contains 0 or multiple nodes.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks,
>>>  Daniel Dekany
>>>
>>>> Pradeep.
>>>> ________________________________________
>>>> From: Daniel Dekany <[email protected]>
>>>> Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2015 2:34 AM
>>>> To: Pradeep Murugesan
>>>> Cc: [email protected]
>>>> Subject: Re: Adding a new BuiltIn - previousSibling
>>>>
>>>> Friday, November 20, 2015, 8:51:31 AM, Pradeep Murugesan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>>>
>>>>> Took a long break due to some personal reasons. Sorry for the same. I 
>>>>> have a question in your email.
>>>>>
>>>>>  What do you mean by
>>>>>
>>>>> "Also I guess inside the testPreviousSibling you don't really need
>>>>> output capturing, nor ?trim. "
>>>>>
>>>>> I am not sure what you are coming to say there. We need to assert somehow 
>>>>> the expected o/p right ?
>>>>>
>>>>> so we can't assert against empty spaces since we don't know how
>>>>> many spaces , So I thought of asserting the same after trimming the o/p.
>>>>
>>>> We don't need capturing for sure, I guess you see that now. As of
>>>> trimming, that's a minor issue really, but in fact we know how many
>>>> spaces are there, since we provide the XML.
>>>>
>>>>> Let me know if I am missing something.
>>>>>
>>>>> Pradeep.
>>>>> ________________________________________
>>>>> From: Daniel Dekany <[email protected]>
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 2:44 AM
>>>>> To: Pradeep Murugesan
>>>>> Subject: Re: Adding a new BuiltIn - previousSibling
>>>>>
>>>>> Tuesday, November 3, 2015, 7:19:17 AM, Pradeep Murugesan wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  I have made the changes you have said and writing unit tests. I
>>>>>> have written an unit test and need to check whether can I proceed in
>>>>>> the same fashion. One important question I have is accessing the
>>>>>> (XML) datamodel required for the testcase.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now I am overriding the function getDataModel() and read the xml
>>>>>> from a file. Kindly let me know if that is acceptable.
>>>>>
>>>>> You don't need to override getDateModel(). Just add "doc" to the data
>>>>> model with the TemplateTest.addToDataModel.
>>>>>
>>>>> Loading the XML file via java.io.File API is not entirely correct,
>>>>> especially not with that relative path ("build/test-classes/..."). You
>>>>> don't know what the current directory will be on the CI server for
>>>>> example. Also, though an extreme case, but it can also occur that a
>>>>> test suite is ran from an unexploded jar (i.e., you don't even have
>>>>> real files anywhere). Just like outside tests, the correct solution is
>>>>> using Class.getResource or Class.getResourceAsStream to read
>>>>> class-loader resources.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also I guess inside the testPreviousSibling you don't really need
>>>>> output capturing, nor ?trim.
>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/pradeepmurugesan/incubator-freemarker/commit/42132df19b6f8e53f66ff3f6cbbce459376c65a6
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> P.S : I have removed the author name in next commit. Intellij adds
>>>>>> it and I am missing it everytime. Sorry!!.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Pradeep.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ________________________________________
>>>>>> From: Pradeep Murugesan <[email protected]>
>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 7:46 AM
>>>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>>>> Subject: Re: Adding a new BuiltIn - previousSibling
>>>>>>
>>>>>> oh now I got it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So we can also expect something like
>>>>>> <a/> there is some text here <b/>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now when the user do a @@previous  on node 'b' he will get node 'a'
>>>>>> but he might expect "there is some text here" which is still a valid 
>>>>>> text node.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I thought there can be no such scenario so kept hanging on with
>>>>>> blindly skipping all till we get a node. So I will do the following .
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. rename to @@previous_significant
>>>>>> 2. skip the siblings when its in any of the blacklisted candidates.
>>>>>> ( whitespaces, CDATA, \n(ofcourse))
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Pradeep.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ________________________________________
>>>>>> From: Daniel Dekany <[email protected]>
>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 4:12 AM
>>>>>> To: Pradeep Murugesan
>>>>>> Subject: Re: Adding a new BuiltIn - previousSibling
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Wednesday, October 28, 2015, 6:21:19 PM, Pradeep Murugesan wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  I agree with that but I have a question kindly don't take it as an 
>>>>>>> argument. Just curious to know
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1. <a/>cdata<b/>
>>>>>>> 2. <a/>       \n<b/>
>>>>>>> 3. <a/>comments<b/>
>>>>>>> 4. <a/>some PI's<b/>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In all the above 4 scenarios when we do a @@previous on node 'b' we 
>>>>>>> expect node 'a'.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> With what you have implemented so far, that is.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am suggesting we will keep iterating until we find a  node type 
>>>>>>> ELEMENT_NODE and return it.
>>>>>>> you are suggesting to keep iterating until we find a node that is not 
>>>>>>> in \n, CDATA, PIs etc.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I think both will work. Do you think any of it which should be
>>>>>>> skipped will also have node type ELEMENT_NODE.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nope.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am not sure about what is a better logic though. Kindly let me
>>>>>>> know if I am not getting something which you are telling.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Silently skipping non-whitespace text is dangerous. But if you call
>>>>>> this @@previous_element, then the user will expect it to happen, so
>>>>>> then what you have implemented can be OK.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As of my @@previous definition, the name is problematic even there, as
>>>>>> it doesn't just return the previous sibling (?previousSibling does
>>>>>> that). It does some magic, by skipping whitespace and such. So
>>>>>> certainly it should be called @@prevous_significant or
>>>>>> @@previous_non_ws, so that it's clear that some trickery is involved.
>>>>>> As of the semantic, the motivation is simply to return what many
>>>>>> naturally expect to be the previous node. Like remember your case;
>>>>>> getting some text instead of the preceding programlisting element was
>>>>>> unexpected at first, I assume. Yes, your definition of @@previous
>>>>>> fixes that too. But if you had some non-whitespace text between those
>>>>>> two programlisting elements, certainly you expect to get that text,
>>>>>> not the element before it. People don't see non-whitespace text as
>>>>>> ignorable, because in fact it hardly ever is.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So after renaming both operations are OK, but I think
>>>>>> @@previous_significant is a safer operation than @@previous_element,
>>>>>> because you won't unintentionally skip non-whitespace text with it.
>>>>>> Surely @@previous_element is quite clear about what it does (that it
>>>>>> will skip text), but then, what can the users do about it? They will
>>>>>> have to hope that there won't be any non-whitespace text before the
>>>>>> target element, ever. Because when there is, they won't know about it,
>>>>>> they can't give an error or something. With @@prevous_significant,
>>>>>> when that assumption fails, they will get the text node and the
>>>>>> template that expects an element can fail or take some special action,
>>>>>> so there's no silent information loss.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>  Daniel Dekany
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Pradeep.
>>>>>>> ________________________________________
>>>>>>> From: Daniel Dekany <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 1:33 PM
>>>>>>> To: Pradeep Murugesan
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: Adding a new BuiltIn - previousSibling
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Wednesday, October 28, 2015, 3:52:35 AM, Pradeep Murugesan wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> By that do you mean that you intend to continue it later so that it
>>>>>>>>> will only skip whitespace, etc., or you think this approach is more
>>>>>>>>> practical? (If it's the later, why?)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ----  So by @@previous the user expects the previous node. But
>>>>>>>> currently it returns the \n , spaces, as you mentioned CDATA etc.
>>>>>>>> To skip these we need to maintain a list of blacklisted candidates
>>>>>>>> to skip. Today we have 3 candidates (let's assume) later we may get
>>>>>>>> lot to skip which we should be adding as blacklisted.
>>>>>>>> I went for this approach assuming  there won't be any scenario
>>>>>>>> where we skip any nodes of type ELEMENT_NODE to fetch the
>>>>>>>> previousSibling node. If we will skip ELEMENT_NODE as well then no
>>>>>>>> other go we need to maintain a list of candidates to skip.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm not sure what you mean be "maintaining". We just check the node on
>>>>>>> the fly, and decide if we proceed with its sibling or return it. What
>>>>>>> we want to skip certainly won't change over time, as the information
>>>>>>> model of XML won't change any time soon, if ever. It's WS-only text
>>>>>>> (it doesn't mater if it's plain text or a CDATA section), comments and
>>>>>>> PI-s. (We never skip elements.)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Kindly let me know if I am wrong.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Regarding the nullPointer exception I have handled it. But Didn't
>>>>>>>> commit. Its like parent directive right we will return null if its
>>>>>>>> the root node, similarly we can return null if its first and last
>>>>>>>> accessing previous and next respectively.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Pradeep.
>>>>>>>> ________________________________________
>>>>>>>> From: Daniel Dekany <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 2:45 AM
>>>>>>>> To: Pradeep Murugesan
>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: Adding a new BuiltIn - previousSibling
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Tuesday, October 27, 2015, 6:04:19 PM, Pradeep Murugesan wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>  Have fixed the code review comments here.
>>>>>>>>> https://github.com/pradeepmurugesan/incubator-freemarker/commit/2e1b0d834e941eaf4ea8aafad720333c7ec1040c
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It's minor issue, but BuiltInsExtForNode and BuiltInExtForNod still
>>>>>>>> don't follow the same convention as the others. The ...BI classes
>>>>>>>> should just be inside BuiltInsForNodes (no need for
>>>>>>>> BuiltInsExtForNode), and BuiltInExtForNode should be called
>>>>>>>> BuiltInForNodeEx.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Regarding the @@previous and @@next we decided to skip the
>>>>>>>>> whitespaces and other character data. Instead I tried to find first
>>>>>>>>> occurrence of the node which is of type Node.ELEMENT_NODE
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> By that do you mean that you intend to continue it later so that it
>>>>>>>> will only skip whitespace, etc., or you think this approach is more
>>>>>>>> practical? (If it's the later, why?)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Also, I believe that the current implementation will throw
>>>>>>>> NullPointerException after you have reached the first or the last
>>>>>>>> node.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> https://github.com/pradeepmurugesan/incubator-freemarker/commit/2e1b0d834e941eaf4ea8aafad720333c7ec1040c#diff-a029bb56a7cedf8c6272a6d8b566f446
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I tried few cases and things worked fine there. Kindly let me know 
>>>>>>>>> your thoughts.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> P.S : I am working on the Junit test cases.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Pradeep.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ________________________________________
>>>>>>>>> From: Daniel Dekany <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 3:36 AM
>>>>>>>>> To: Pradeep Murugesan
>>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: Adding a new BuiltIn - previousSibling
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> OK, let's see. I have ran through the diff and have spotted these
>>>>>>>>> (just in the order as I find then):
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> putBI("previousSibling", new previousSiblingBI()), etc. should be
>>>>>>>>> putBI("previous_sibling", "previousSibling", new previousSiblingBI()).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> BuiltInExtForNode: Doesn't follow the naming pattern of the other
>>>>>>>>> BuiltIns... classes.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> TemplateNodeModelExt: Should be TemplateNodeModelEx (as we already
>>>>>>>>> have other Ex models, we are stuck with that convention...)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> BuiltinVariable: You have registered two new names there, but these
>>>>>>>>> aren't built-in variables.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> In ElementModel: @@previous and @@next doesn't yet implement what we
>>>>>>>>> were talking about. I mean, it doesn't just skip white-space and
>>>>>>>>> comments and PI-s, but any text nodes. (Also an XPath-based
>>>>>>>>> implementation won't be very fast. org.w3c.dom.Node-s has
>>>>>>>>> getPreviousSibling()/getNextSibling() methods. Also, if you will skip
>>>>>>>>> WS text only, you won't be able to do that with XPath anyway.)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> (As a policy, there should not be author comments ("created by") in
>>>>>>>>> the source code.)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>  Daniel Dekany
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Friday, October 23, 2015, 9:09:56 PM, Pradeep Murugesan wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> https://github.com/pradeepmurugesan/incubator-freemarker/commit/465ed1bd768e8a5bee91bea7d3b291a5872efae5
>>>>>>>>>> I have added the builtIns which will return blindly the previous
>>>>>>>>>> and next sibling and also the special variables @@previous and
>>>>>>>>>> @@next which will return the valid node. In the special variable
>>>>>>>>>> case I have used the xpath to get the required nodes.
>>>>>>>>>> Kindly review and let me know your thoughts.
>>>>>>>>>> Pradeep.
>>>>>>>>>>> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 11:42:04 +0200
>>>>>>>>>>> From: [email protected]
>>>>>>>>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: Adding a new BuiltIn - previousSibling
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Returning the sibling node without skipping stuff is not 
>>>>>>>>>>> XML-specific,
>>>>>>>>>>> so certainly that should be ?previous (and a new method in the new
>>>>>>>>>>> TemplateNodeModelEx interface), not a hash key that starts with "@".
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> BTW, of course all of these has an opposite direction variant, like
>>>>>>>>>>> "@next". And "@prev" may should be "@previous".
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>>>  Daniel Dekany
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Sunday, October 18, 2015, 5:31:50 AM, Pradeep Murugesan wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> > yeah makes sense..
>>>>>>>>>>> > so we need to return a valid element node he is looking for
>>>>>>>>>>> > skipping all the whitespace, CDATA etc...
>>>>>>>>>>> > I am wondering if the user will have any reason to look for a 
>>>>>>>>>>> > CDATA
>>>>>>>>>>> > sibling or any non element sibling which we will skip.
>>>>>>>>>>> > In that case can we have 2 special cases.
>>>>>>>>>>> > 1. @prev which will return the immediate sibling2. @prevNode or
>>>>>>>>>>> > something intutive which will return a valid element skipping few 
>>>>>>>>>>> > .
>>>>>>>>>>> > Pradeep.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 20:15:57 +0200
>>>>>>>>>>> >> From: [email protected]
>>>>>>>>>>> >> To: [email protected]
>>>>>>>>>>> >> Subject: Re: Adding a new BuiltIn - previousSibling
>>>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> Saturday, October 17, 2015, 7:09:49 PM, Pradeep Murugesan wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> > hmm then I think @@prev should return the immediate sibling 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> > with the following issues/advantages.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> > 1. In xml doc its a overhead for user to call it twice to get 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> > the
>>>>>>>>>>> >> > previous element node2.
>>>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> It much worse than that, if it just returns the previous sibling 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> on
>>>>>>>>>>> >> the DOM, as you can't know if you have to call it once, twice, 3
>>>>>>>>>>> >> times, etc.
>>>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> > For less document centric it is not a problem.
>>>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> For non-document XML it's similarly desirable. I meant JSON and 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> such,
>>>>>>>>>>> >> where @@prev doesn't exist anyway...
>>>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> > 3. for Non-normalized dom we wont do anything before they 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> > normalize it .
>>>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> Actually, we can do a little effort... skipping *all* the
>>>>>>>>>>> >> white-space-only character date nodes and comments and PI-s. But
>>>>>>>>>>> >> that's all.
>>>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> > Let me know If I got that correctly.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> > If so I will add @@prev as a special case and use
>>>>>>>>>>> >> > .node.@@prev.@@prev to get to theprevious sibling node.
>>>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> You mean, you will use: .node.@@prev
>>>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> > Pradeep.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 01:09:36 +0200
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> From: [email protected]
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> To: [email protected]
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> Subject: Re: Adding a new BuiltIn - previousSibling
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> Thursday, October 15, 2015, 10:44:10 PM, Pradeep Murugesan 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> > Hi Daniel,
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >  So you are saying we need to have it that way and leave the
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> > responsibility to the caller. Lets say in case of us to get 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> > to check
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> > if template is preceded by formDataModel we will do the 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> > follwing ?
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> > <#local siblingElement = .node.@@prev.@@prev>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> > then check the role attribute of siblingElement ?
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> > I assume the semantic for @@prev should return the immediate
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> > sibling being it a whitespace , CDATA or \n as in our case.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> > Let me know your thoughts.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> I think that in almost all cases the user means the previous 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> DOM node
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> ignoring white-space nodes and comments, and certainly PI-s 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> too.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> (That's also why ?previous or such wouldn't solve the problem 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> you ran
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> into, while it can be still very useful in some other 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> applications,
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> like where the tree is not from XML but something less
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> document-centric.) (Non-normalized DOM-s, like one with 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> sibling cdata
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> nodes, could also complicate what we need, but I belive that 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> such
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> cases can only be addressed reasonably be ensuring that the 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> whole DOM
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> is normalized before we do anything with it... so it doesn't 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> mater
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> now.)
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> > Pradeep.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 20:32:33 +0200
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> From: [email protected]
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> To: [email protected]
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> Subject: Re: Adding a new BuiltIn - previousSibling
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> Thursday, October 15, 2015, 4:13:18 PM, Pradeep Murugesan 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> > HI Daniel,
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >  Its not preceeded by white spaces but "\n" is taken as 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> > sibling.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> \n is whitespace, and it's a sibling in XML.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> > In book.xml <programlisting role="formDataModel">dsadsd 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> > fdfsdfdsf dfds</programlisting>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> > <programlisting role="template">&lt;#if cargo.weight &lt;
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> > <emphasis>100</emphasis>&gt;Light 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> > cargo&lt;/#if&gt;</programlisting>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> > I am trying to get the programlisting with role 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> > formDataModel as
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> > previousSibling. But the "\n" is returned as the 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> > sibling. To confirm
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> > the same I just checked it with
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> > node.previousSibling().previousSibling() and I am able 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> > to get to formDataModel.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> > What should we need to do for this here ?
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> Nothing... it's correct that way. it's that you want the 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> sibling
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> *element*, as I said. Actually, it's a bit trickier than 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> that. You
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> want to get the sibling element, unless the interfering 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> character data
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> is non-whitespace. Because, if you have <a/>cdata<b/>, 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> then surely you
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> don't want to say that <b/> is preceded bu <a/>, but 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> "cdata".
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> > I have also added a key with @@prev in ElementModel and 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> > that works fine.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> So what exactly is the semantic of @@prev?
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> > Pradeep.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 22:32:40 +0200
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> From: [email protected]
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> To: [email protected]
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> Subject: Re: Adding a new BuiltIn - previousSibling
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> I'm not sure what's improper in the result (I don't 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> know what was
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> expected). Isn't that node preceded by white space? 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> That would explain
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> it. You might rather want the previous *element*. But 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> that will be
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> difficult to express on the TemplateNodeModel level, 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> which is not
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> bound to XML.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> One important point is that you can't add new methods to
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> TemplateNodeModel, as that breaks backward 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> compatibility. It can only
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> be added to a new sub-interface, like 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> TemplateNodeModelEx. But even
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> that won't solve getting the sibling element node.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> So another approach is instead of adding a built-in, 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> adding a new
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> special key that's specific to freemarker.ext.dom 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> models, like
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> "@@prev" and "@@next".
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> --
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>  Daniel Dekany
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> Wednesday, October 14, 2015, 9:10:25 PM, Pradeep 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> Murugesan wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > Hi Daniel,
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >  I tried to add a new built in & of course it DIDN'T 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > work ?.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > I did the following.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > 1. added putBI("previousSibling", new 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > previousSiblingBI()); in
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > BuiltIn.java2. added a static class in 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > BuiltInForNodes.java   static
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > class previousSiblingBI extends BuiltInForNode {
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >          @Override
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >          TemplateModel 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > calculateResult(TemplateNodeModel nodeModel,
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > Environment env) throws TemplateModelException {
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >               return nodeModel.getPreviousSibling();
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >          }
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >    }
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > 3. added a method in Interface TemplateNodeModel.java
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >      TemplateNodeModel getPreviousSibling() throws 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > TemplateModelException;
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > 4. In package freemarker.ext.dom's NodeModel added 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > the following method
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > public TemplateNodeModel getPreviousSibling() {     
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > Node
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > previousSibling  = node.getPreviousSibling();
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >       return wrap(previousSibling);}
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > Once this is done I tried to access it as 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > .node?previousSibling
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > from template and it reached till the NodeModel class 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > i defined in
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > the 4th step. But the returned previousSibling is not 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > proper. It's
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > not returning the programListingNode with 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > formDataModel instead returns someother node.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > I tried to log the node returned and I got the 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > following o/p
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > [docgen:transform] [#text:
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > [docgen:transform]           ]
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > I clearly understand the implementation of 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > getPreviousSibling is
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > not proper, but I couldn't figure out where we have 
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > implemented the same.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > Please advise.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> > Pradeep.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> --
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >>  Daniel Dekany
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> --
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >>  Daniel Dekany
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> --
>>>>>>>>>>> >> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>>> >>  Daniel Dekany
>>>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>  Daniel Dekany
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>  Daniel Dekany
>>>>>>>
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>>>>> --
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