Subject: RE: design -- ASSERT(field is a container)
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Wed Jan 12 2000 - 23:36:55 CST
At 10:23 AM 12/27/99 -0600, Justin Bradford wrote:
>> RTF also supports fields in fields, for example nested IF clauses:
>>
>> { IF { MERGEFIELD Name } = "xx" "yy" "zz" }
>>
>> How should this be supported?
>
>Yikes. The only solution I can think of would be:
>
><field type="if">
> <item1>
> <field type="mergefield">
> <item1>Name</item1>
> </field>
> </item1>
> <item2>==</item2>
> <item3>xx</item3>
> etc.
></field>
>
>And the field object would have to be able to hold text, numbers, or
>other field objects.
Sigh. Yes, if we had to, I suppose we could do it this way, but I'd really
rather not.
Paul
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