[NTG-context] Re: \doifemptyelse issue?

[Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>]

On 11/13/2023 1:10 PM, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
> The following MWE gives "false false" instead of "false true". I'm sure this used to work (18 months or more ago!) as I found it when re-processing an old document.

because it's not empty (it's a command that you pass)

> ---start---
> \setdataset [DS] [a=aaaa]
> \setdataset [DS] [a=]
> 
> \starttext
> 
> :\datasetvariable{DS}{1}{a}: \crlf
> :\datasetvariable{DS}{2}{a}: \crlf
> 
> \doifemptyelse{\datasetvariable{DS}{1}{a}}{true}{false}
> 
> \doifemptyelse{\datasetvariable{DS}{2}{a}}{true}{false}
>    
> \stoptext
> ---end---
> 
> ConTeXt  ver: 2023.09.26 18:19 LMTX
> 
> There is a work-around using \doiftext instead as that seems to work okay with recalled dataset values but I thought I'd raise it.
for that we have:

\doifsomethingelse

Hans

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