Hello Jody, Thank you for looking at this again. I managed to provide a workaround for my problem, so I closed the issue on JIRA. If this is needed in the future, it can be raised again (and fixed properly). I do agree that multiplicity has to be considered and it needs a lot of thought...
Cheers Rini -----Original Message----- From: Jody Garnett [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, 6 June 2009 2:25 PM To: Angreani, Rini (E&M, Kensington) Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Geotools-devel] Filtering complex attribute value > Therefore, my converter would only retrieve the first (and assumed only) > value from the attribute. > I don't know if multiplicity would ever be needed.. Perhaps we'll update that > when required. > While you're at it, I submitted a patch and would appreciate it if you can > take a look :) > http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-2528 I am a bit unhappy ignoring multiplicity on this one; if multiplicity is allowed the XPath expression should return all of the values in a collection. We do have a couple of functions that are willing to do things with a list of values; but I expected when we started working with multiplicity we would get more. You should ask for a second opinion on this one I may be being a bit to exacting on what is a pragmatic approch (treating a list of 1 as as a single entry). What you describe is similar to the Perl practice of being magic about converting a list to a single entry depending on context. However is there not an XPath syntax to explicitly grab the first thing out of a list? I am not going to have a chance to get to look at GEOT-2528 until next weekend; we should ask another admin to help out on this one. Jody ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
