Open GuntherRademacher opened 3 months ago
Thanks Gunther, I’m currently on vacation and will look at this when I return in about a week. Might be worth adding some tests to the iXML test suite.
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On 27 May 2024, at 20:34, Gunther Rademacher @.***> wrote:
GuntherRademacher/markup-blitz#10 mentions several alternate formulations of a rule that includes an insertion as part of the separator of a repetition.
I happened to try those on jwiXML.xhtml, and found that for none of those variants the insertion is actually done. In contrast to that, the variant shown in GuntherRademacher/markup-blitz#9, where the insertion is in a separate rule, works as expected.
Just thought you might want to know. Thanks for supplying the webpage, by the way.
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Funny that
S: "a"++(-",",+#20).
gives <S>a a a</S>
from a,a,a
But in your example #10 I get a result:
<input>
<A a-list="x"/>
<A a-list="xyz"/>
<B b-list="x"/>
<B b-list="xyz"/>
</input>
Removing the attribute mark on b-list
, and changing the insertion to a printable string doesn't get the insertion appearing.
Will have to look a little more closely, but it's puzzling.
More intriguingly:
A: -'A', rs, b-list,stop.
B = -'B', rs, b-list,stop.
{@a-list = name ++ rs.}
@b-list = name ++ (rs, +#20).
gives
<input>
<A b-list="f g h"/>
<B b-list="x y z"/>
</input>
but uncommenting the @a-list
rule yields:
<input>
<A b-list="fgh"/>
<B b-list="xyz"/>
</input>
even though the @a-list
rule is not referenced! Food for thought (after finishing my Balisage paper!)
I've found the error - the compiling of the rules into canonical form builds name ++ rs
into a nonterminal name-plus-sep
which is also the non-terminal referred to by name ++ (rs, +#20)
(and of course it finds name-plus-sep
already exists so uses that). Swapping the order of the @a-list
and @b-list
rules restores the inserted spaces. Now I know the cause I can work on a fix.
GuntherRademacher/markup-blitz#10 mentions several alternate formulations of a rule that includes an insertion as part of the separator of a repetition.
I happened to try those on jwiXML.xhtml, and found that for none of those variants the insertion is actually done. In contrast to that, the
b-list
shown in GuntherRademacher/markup-blitz#9, where the insertion is in a separate rule, works as expected.Just thought you might want to know. Thanks for providing the webpage, by the way.