Re: Access current element in xmlsetsetup via xml.expressions

[mf <massifr@fastwebnet.it>]

The answer is in lxml-lpt.lua, where built-in expressions are defined.
You need a good knowledge of LPEG that i miss.

Some built-in expressions get the current element as first argument, 
like count() or child() (lines 1300-1307 of lxml-lpt.lua):

expressions.child = function(e,pattern)
     return applylpath(e,pattern) -- todo: cache
end

expressions.count = function(e,pattern) -- what if pattern == empty or nil
     local collected = applylpath(e,pattern) -- todo: cache
     return pattern and (collected and #collected) or 0
end

Some other expressions use a template that passes the "list", "ll", "l" 
and "order" arguments you find cited in the XML manual §4.1 "Path 
expressions - Expressions and filters".
These are the lines 738-743 in lxml-lpt.lua:

local template_e = [[
     local expr = xml.expressions
     return function(list,ll,l,order)
         return %s
     end
]]

That template is used by the function that registers a new expression 
(lines 807-812 in lxml-lpt.lua):

local function register_expression(expression)
     local converted = lpegmatch(converter,expression)
     local runner = load(format(template_e,converted))
     runner = (runner and runner()) or function() 
errorrunner_e(expression,converted) end
     return { kind = "expression", expression = expression, converted = 
converted, evaluator = runner }
end

Anyway i could not find a way to define an expression with a function 
like this:

xml.expressions.myexpr( ... )

that gets access to those arguments.

The only arguments it gets are the ones you specify in your LPATH 
expressions; AFAIK they are attributes values -- with the @attr syntax 
-- and strings.

Best wishes,
Massi
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