You can build on these new "@@" keys in Docgen of course. As of when
it will be merged into a stable release, I don't know yet, maybe
2.3.24, maybe 2.3.25. In any case, Docgen, as an internal project, can
use nightly versions, so it doesn't have to wait for stable releases.

For efficiency, I usually try to review contributions in one go, when
the pull request is merged. But I took a quick glance at the commits,
and hasn't spotted any problems.

-- 
Thanks,
 Daniel Dekany


Sunday, December 13, 2015, 9:48:17 AM, Pradeep Murugesan wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
>
>  I have added those cases for CDATA as well.
> https://github.com/pradeepmurugesan/incubator-freemarker/commit/620d8a35e689bd6e94fb77ceb844105d66b90ca9
>
> Renamed @@previous and @@next to @@previous_significant and
> @@next_significant
> https://github.com/pradeepmurugesan/incubator-freemarker/commit/cbe7025bfe8fe713b74d1b5499d14fd7cd35c4f8
>
> Kindly review the same and let me know if we are good to integrate with 
> docgen.
>
> Pradeep.
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Daniel Dekany <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2015 12:07 AM
> To: Pradeep Murugesan
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Adding a new BuiltIn - previousSibling
>
> 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
>>>>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> --
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