I got a few parse errors trying the following:
<if expr= " some conditional ">
<log> </log>
</if>
<else>
<log> </log>
</else>
Of course, the proper structuring for this, in STAX, is to nest the 'else'
inside of the 'if'. This is pretty counter-intuitive to what must be almost all
programmers. Though STAX isn't a programming language, per se, when an 'if'
condition fails, the natural place for a programmer's eyes to go is past the
closing of the 'if' scope (in this case, to the closing of the 'if' element).
I would suggest a structure like this:
<conditional>
<if expr=" "> </if>
<else> </else>
</conditional>
That's more to type, but I imagine it's easy for an XML parser to make sense of
the relationship between the if/else elements. I'd prefer the first structure
that is listed in this email, w/o the extra 'conditional' element. If and else
are mutually exclusive in execution, so their elements should, ideally, be
exclusive, without one being subordinate to the other.
Thoughts?
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