On 2007-07-11, at 15:49 EDT, Henry Minsky wrote:
On 7/11/07, James Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Wow, a major reduction in code size and removes lexically spurious
layouts
too!
*If i were king*:
<text datapath="person/" text="%s %s" format="$path{'firstName/text
()',
'lastName/text()'}" />
I vote for that one!
Problems:
1) `text` is the actual content of the text node. You don't want the
compiler to magically guess that if there are %'s in the content that
it should do something different.
2) `format` is a method on text nodes. We cause infinite pain when
we try to have an attribute and a method with the same name.
This suggestion is really choice 3 (which uses new attribute names to
avoid the problems above):
<text datapath="person/" dataformat="'%s %s'" data=$path
{'firstName/text()', 'lastName/text()'} />
(I showed `dataformat` as being an expression, so you could have a
variable format if you liked.)
So, should I infer you and James really like choice 3?
