I believe \orelse might be what you want. It works with most \if... macros, and it avoids nesting of \doifelse constructs. Here's an example, which I use in conditionally removing preceding punctuation if any other keys are defined before a specific one in an assignment:

```
      % If any of the preceding keys was specified, then replace any preceding punctuation with a space
      % and typeset the number with its CSL abbreviation, followed by a comma
      \ifdefined\btxsbllocvol
        \removeunwantedspaces\removepunctuation\btxspace
      \orelse\ifdefined\btxsbllocno
        \removeunwantedspaces\removepunctuation\btxspace
      \fi
      \orelse\ifdefined\btxsbllocpt
        \removeunwantedspaces\removepunctuation\btxspace
      \fi
      \orelse\ifdefined\btxsbllocp
        \removeunwantedspaces\removepunctuation\btxspace
      \fi
      \orelse\ifdefined\btxsbllocn
        \removeunwantedspaces\removepunctuation\btxspace
      \fi
      \orelse\ifdefined\btxsbllocfig
        \removeunwantedspaces\removepunctuation\btxspace
      \fi
      \orelse\ifdefined\btxsbllocop
        \removeunwantedspaces\removepunctuation\btxspace
      \fi
      \orelse\ifdefined\btxsbllocbk
        \removeunwantedspaces\removepunctuation\btxspace
      \fi
      \orelse\ifdefined\btxsbllocep
        \removeunwantedspaces\removepunctuation\btxspace
      \fi
      \orelse\ifdefined\btxsbllocchap
        \removeunwantedspaces\removepunctuation\btxspace
      \fi
      \orelse\ifdefined\btxsbllocv
        \removeunwantedspaces\removepunctuation\btxspace
      \fi
      \orelse\ifdefined\btxsbllocfol
        \removeunwantedspaces\removepunctuation\btxspace
      \fi
      \orelse\ifdefined\btxsbllocfrag
        \removeunwantedspaces\removepunctuation\btxspace
      \fi
      \orelse\ifdefined\btxsbllocpl
        \removeunwantedspaces\removepunctuation\btxspace
      \fi
      \orelse\ifdefined\btxsblloccol
        \removeunwantedspaces\removepunctuation\btxspace
      \fi
      \orelse\ifdefined\btxsbllocl
        \removeunwantedspaces\removepunctuation\btxspace
      \fi
      \orelse\ifdefined\btxsbllocsv
        \removeunwantedspaces\removepunctuation\btxspace
      \fi
      \orelse\ifdefined\btxsbllocsec
        \removeunwantedspaces\removepunctuation\btxspace
      \fi
      \fi
```

Joey

On Thu, Dec 9, 2021, 3:19 AM Denis Maier via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:

Hi,

 

I was wondering whether we have tests similar to «if-else if-else» or «switch case» in context’s xml processing. (And even in context more general...) I have found these doifelse tests, but elseif doesn’t seem to exist. Is that correct? If yes, could that be added? Of course, you can always just nest doifelse-constructs, but that will become ugly quickly. Being able to specify multiple branches would be handy.

 

Best,

Denis

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