Thanks for the suggestion, but we won't be making that change to STAX. The
STAX has been available since 2001 and there are many existing STAX jobs
that use the current if/else/elseif syntax. The current syntax works well
for nested ifs, etc. Also, it's clearly documented in the STAX User's
Guide with many examples.
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[staf-users] stax xml structuring suggestion
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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