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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: xml expression error
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 00:10:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e47cf384-1b9d-588d-17cd-754b869a8c66@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6BA7C71B-3A5F-4F0E-8968-FBF42ED9F18A@uva.nl>

On 5/12/2016 1:49 PM, Meer, Hans van der wrote:
> I think I have the problem nailed down to the fact that in the comparison:
> something >= -1234
> the parser in question separates the minus in the negative number into a
> separate child node, apart from the digits; witness the errormessage in
> the log below.
> Changing the number  -1234 in the arithmetic expression
> tonumber("-1234") (mind the quotes) does give a correctly evaluated
> expression.
>
> Still, I am baffled by the fact that in arithmetic expressions positive
> and negative numbers are treated differently in the filtering operation.

it's more that 'names' are intercepted .. can you test (lxml-lpt.lua) 
with:

local lp_child   = Cc("expr.child(ll,'") * R("az","AZ") * 
R("az","AZ","--","__")^0 * Cc("')")

Hans

> Hans van der Meer
>
>
>> On 29 Apr 2016, at 15:04, Meer, Hans van der <H.vanderMeer@uva.nl
>> <mailto:H.vanderMeer@uva.nl>> wrote:
>>
>> Here is a minimal example showing that even a number as -1 is not
>> correctly handled by the lpath[selection]-code.
>> I really am convinced that not handling negative numbers should
>> qualify as a mistake.
>>
>> Hans van der Meer
>>
>>
>> % failure of negative number comparison.
>> \startxmlsetups demo:numberfail
>> \xmlsetsetup{#1}{root|node}{demo:numberfail:*}
>> \stopxmlsetups
>> \xmlregisterdocumentsetup{demo}{demo:numberfail}
>> \startxmlsetups demo:numberfail:root
>> @atta >= 1:\crlf
>> \xmlfilter{#1}{/[number(@atta) >= 1]/command(demo:numberfail:node)}
>> \blank
>> @atta >= -1:\crlf
>> \xmlfilter{#1}{/[number(@atta) >= -1]/command(demo:numberfail:node)}
>> \xmlfilter{#1}{/[number(@atta) >=
>> number(-1)]/command(demo:numberfail:node)}
>> \stopxmlsetups
>> \startxmlsetups demo:numberfail:node
>> node: attribute atta = \xmlatt{#1}{atta}\crlf
>> \stopxmlsetups
>> \startbuffer[numberfail]
>> <root>
>> <node atta="2"/>
>> <node atta="3"/>
>> </root>
>> \stopbuffer
>> \starttext
>> \xmlprocessbuffer{demo}{numberfail}{}
>> the error from \type{\xmlfilter{#1}{/[number(@atta) >=
>> -1]/command(demo:numberfail:node)}}:
>> \starttyping
>> xml > lpath > error in expression: number(@atta) >= -1 =>
>> expr.number((ll.at <http://ll.at/> and ll.at <http://ll.at/>['atta']))
>> >= expr.child(ll,'-')1
>> \stoptyping
>>
>> the error from \type{\xmlfilter{#1}{/[number(@atta) >=
>> number(-1)]/command(demo:numberfail:node)}}:
>> \starttyping
>> xml > lpath > error in expression: number(@atta) >= number(-1) =>
>> expr.number((ll.at <http://ll.at/> and ll.at <http://ll.at/>['atta']))
>> >= expr.number(expr.child(ll,'-')1)
>> \stoptyping
>> \stoptext
>
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      reply	other threads:[~2016-05-12 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-28 15:06 dr. Hans van der Meer
2016-04-28 20:13 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2016-04-28 21:12   ` Meer, Hans van der
2016-04-29 13:04   ` Meer, Hans van der
2016-05-12 11:49     ` Meer, Hans van der
2016-05-12 22:10       ` Hans Hagen [this message]

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